An Intelligent-IoT-Based Data Analytics for Freshwater Recirculating Aquaculture System

Smart farming is essential for a nation whose economy largely depends on agro products. In the last few years, rapid urbanization and deforestation have impacted farmers. Due to the lack of rainwater harvesting and changing weather patterns, many crop failure cases have been registered in the last few years. To prevent loss of annual crop production, many researchers propose the technology-driven smart farming method. Smart farming is a technology-driven control environment for monitoring and maintaining the crop. Smart farming increases crop production and provides an alternative source of income to small farmers. To promote smart farming in India, the government initiated many pilot projects for integrated aquaculture farming. However, the lack of technological intervention and skill-oriented process makes it difficult for most farmers to succeed in this business. In this paper, we have proposed an intelligent IoT-based freshwater recirculating aquaculture system. The proposed system has integrated sensors and actuators. The sensor system monitors the water parameters, and actuators maintain the aquaculture environment. An intelligent data analytics algorithm played a significant role in monitoring and maintaining the freshwater aquaculture environment. The analytics derived the relationship between the water parameters and identified the relative change. From the experimental evaluation, we have identified that the M5 model tree algorithm has the highest accuracy for monitoring the relative change in water parameters.