Arduino prototype for temperature measurement automation in freshwater shrimp farming: Huaquillas case.

Abstract

The present investigation has been developed with the purpose of providing a technological solution in shrimp farming in the city of Huaquillas - Ecuador, shrimp production in captivity is a farming activity carried out in an aquatic environment, which with technological help seeks the development of shrimp for human consumption and at the same time, avoids the great economic losses suffered by this productive sector, as a result of multiple diseases that affect their farms, among which we have diseases produced by the untimely temperature variations in the farming pools. In order to achieve this, environmental conditions must be adequate to guarantee the survival, production and good cultivation of shrimp. A prototype was developed to record temperature in freshwater shrimp ponds. This device constantly monitors the environmental conditions and emits sound alerts and text messages in case of detecting variations outside the optimum parameters. The importance lies in the contribution to the automation of the temperature measurement process in a shrimp farm, reducing the dependence on the human factor in the process and increasing the frequency and precision of control and monitoring, it can be concluded that the automation of the temperature measurement process in freshwater shrimp farms represents a significant advance in the aquaculture industry.