{"id":4194,"date":"2024-03-12T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nish.wales\/?p=4194"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:02:21","slug":"case-study-using-sensors-and-systems-to-develop-an-intelligent-aquaculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nish.wales\/en\/2024\/03\/12\/case-study-using-sensors-and-systems-to-develop-an-intelligent-aquaculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study: Using sensors and systems to develop an intelligent aquaculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/360aquaculture.com\/\">Three-Sixty Aquaculture<\/a>\u00a0is a Swansea-based company that was\u00a0founded in 2014 with a clear vision to provide the highest quality, fully traceable, seafood to the UK.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three-Sixty Aquaculture specialise in culturing fish for consumers in both the international and local markets.&nbsp;They are part of a specialisation who&nbsp;use manual observations of fish morphology and behaviour as a predictor of fish health in a Recycling Aquaculture System&nbsp;(RAS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company had identified that manual monitoring of RAS systems is a labour intensive and time-consuming exercise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Swansea University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swansea.ac.uk\/medicine\/enterprise-and-innovation\/business-support-projects\/accelerate-healthcare-technology-centre\/\">Healthcare Technology Centre<\/a> and 360 Aquaculture collaborated on an innovative solution that supported the development of an automated method of managing system efficiencies based on RAS sensor data and fish behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The six-month project consisted of the&nbsp;integration of a Smart Water Remote Management System (SWaRMS) which coupled sensor&nbsp;and system derived data with camera system live-feed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smart Water Management (SWM)&nbsp;uses Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and real-time data and responses as an integral part of the solution for water management challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Healthcare Technology Centre contributed with collaborative research and development activities that supported the co-develop&nbsp;a&nbsp;database and automated fish morphology detector, and undertook the mapping of new processes to improve asset management and health of fish species in culture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-Sixty Aquaculture\u00a0is a Swansea-based company that was\u00a0founded in 2014 with a clear vision to provide the highest quality, fully traceable, seafood to the UK. 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