Development of Water Quality Monitoring System Prototype for Fresh Water Fish Culture

Abstract

The common way to monitor water quality in fresh water fish culture is to use intermittent monitoring that requires users to collect data manually. It is a tedious work for them and there is a possibility that the data are not taken in a day. Not taking the reading in a day can create a problem in fresh water farming especially if water source comes from river. Fish will die in a few hours if the water is heavily polluted and this will cause thousands of dollars in losses to fish farmer. The present project proposes continuous monitoring of water quality for fresh water fish. Temperature sensor, pH sensor, and dissolved oxygen sensor are the sensors that are critically important in a fresh water fish monitoring system. Wireless technology and Internet facilities that are adopted in the system have made the system more robust and more reliable. The system is much better than intermittent monitoring because users can access data regardless of where they are.