2024 Faculty and Student Research Poster Session and Research Fair
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Item Development and Deployment Internet of Things (IoT) in Aquaponics Experiments(2024-03-07) Howell, Nathan; Askarian, Benham; Bright, Barrett; Grant, Spencer; Ksor, MadilynIn this project, our aim was to create a physical Internet of Things (IoT) water quality sensing toolset that we could put into a lab aquaponics system. Aquaponics is the combination of hydroponics and aquaculture to grow fish and crops together. Water quality is very important to the overall efficiency of resources used in the process. We purchased some off-the-shelf sensors for water temperature, water salinity, and pH and connected them into an inexpensive microcontroller. The microcontroller guides the data collection from the sensors in an aquaponics growth experiment which includes recording the data at regular intervals and then sending it to an app so that we could watch it remotely. We did not get as far as long we would like. We wanted to get where we had three individual sensor sets working and well calibrated to be just as accurate as hand measurements that we take from a manual digital probe. However, we are getting close to this state, automated data logging and monitoring. We will continue to work on these sensors to get these working and therefore make IoT monitoring of aquaponics experiments at WT a regular tool in our work. Over time, if we can find a way to create inexpensive sensor arrays for aquaponics, the ability to optimize, control, and better understand aquaponics production both for research and for general practice should to increase.