Water Monitoring and Analysis System: Validating an IoT-Enabled Prototype Towards Sustainable Aquaculture

AUTHOR(S)

ANDREW B. GALLEMIT

ABSTRACT

—— Abstract — The interconnection of things in the physical world with things in the virtual world opens up new possibilities for accessing things at anytime, anywhere. IoT technology has a viable economic application in the aquaculture farm industry of Dapitan City. The potential for increasing the production of cultured species can be attributed to the quality of water the farms maintain. For lack of science, water quality is not properly maintained on small-scale aquaculture farms. The researcher is compelled to bridge the gap between the scientific farming approach suitable for the small-scale aquaculture farm industry in Dapitan City and the integration of ICT as an economical tool. This study aims to develop an IoT-enabled prototype for a cost-efficient water monitoring and analysis system to be used as a tool for effective, efficient, and reliable scientific farming. The study employed descriptive research with the development of a prototype system that adheres to a scientific prototyping methodology. The developed system prototype is submitted as the empirical component of a technology acceptance validation among aquaculture farm operators, owners, and farm employees in Dapitan City. To materialize the steps in device prototyping—modeling of circuits, assembly of ideas, and getting direct output—the researcher employed the rapid prototyping technique in the execution of throw-away prototyping as the development methodology. A survey validating the technology acceptance of users has proven that the developed system prototype garnered a whopping high level of technology acceptance. The results simply imply that the prototype system is extremely useful and easy to use. Keywords — IoT, Automation, Aquaculture, ICT, Water Quality, Technology Acceptance, Prototyping, Microcontrollers, Open source, Monitoring