Development of a low-power underwater NFC-enabled sensor device for seaweed monitoring

dc.contributor.authorPeres, Caroline
dc.contributor.authorEmam, Masoud
dc.contributor.authorJafarzadeh, Hamed
dc.contributor.authorBelcastro, Marco
dc.contributor.authorO'Flynn, Brendan
dc.contributor.funderHorizon 2020en
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Regional Development Funden
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-19T10:35:23Z
dc.date.available2021-07-19T10:35:23Z
dc.date.issued2021-07-07
dc.date.updated2021-07-19T10:17:56Z
dc.description.abstractAquaculture farming faces challenges to increase production while maintaining welfare of livestock, efficiently use of resources, and being environmentally sustainable. To help overcome these challenges, remote and real-time monitoring of the environmental and biological conditions of the aquaculture site is highly important. Multiple remote monitoring solutions for investigating the growth of seaweed are available, but no integrated solution that monitors different biotic and abiotic factors exists. A new integrated multi-sensing system would reduce the cost and time required to deploy the system and provide useful information on the dynamic forces affecting the plants and the associated biomass of the harvest. In this work, we present the development of a novel miniature low-power NFC-enabled data acquisition system to monitor seaweed growth parameters in an aquaculture context. It logs temperature, light intensity, depth, and motion, and these data can be transmitted or downloaded to enable informed decision making for the seaweed farmers. The device is fully customisable and designed to be attached to seaweed or associated mooring lines. The developed system was characterised in laboratory settings to validate and calibrate the embedded sensors. It performs comparably to commercial environmental sensors, enabling the use of the device to be deployed in commercial and research settings.en
dc.description.sponsorshipScience Foundation Ireland (12/RC/2289-P2 (INSIGHT); 16/RC/3835 (VISTAMILK); 16/RC/3918 (CONFIRM)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.articleid4649en
dc.identifier.citationPeres, C., Emam, M., Jafarzadeh, H., Belcastro, M. and O'Flynn, B. (2021) 'Development of a low-power underwater NFC-enabled sensor device for seaweed monitoring', Sensors, 21(14), 4649 (19pp). doi: 10.3390/s21144649en
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/s21144649en
dc.identifier.eissn1424-8220
dc.identifier.endpage19en
dc.identifier.issued14en
dc.identifier.journaltitleSensorsen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11575
dc.identifier.volume21en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherMDPIen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020::RIA/774109/EU/Intelligent management system for integrated multi-trophic aquaculture/IMPAQTen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Research Centres/13/RC/2077/IE/CONNECT: The Centre for Future Networks & Communications/en
dc.rights© 2021, the Authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectAquacultureen
dc.subjectData loggeren
dc.subjectInertial motion uniten
dc.subjectSeaweed monitoringen
dc.subjectSensor systemen
dc.titleDevelopment of a low-power underwater NFC-enabled sensor device for seaweed monitoringen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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