SEASTAR (SurvEillance of Aquaculture farmS with neTworks of underwAter sensoRs)

Short description of the project: SEASTAR was a two-year project funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), aimed at exploiting innovative Internet of Underwater Things Technologies and integrating them with last-generation miniaturized wearable sensors to be placed on each fish.

Tangible results: The project has built a system that is a completely innovative underwater infrastructure. The architecture of this system is based on 4 pillars: W-Node, W-Gateway, W-Cloud and W-Pico. In addition the project has contributed to the definition of the AquaCloud 2.0 standard and to its full implementation, enabling integration of sensor data from different farms and sensors manufacturers into the monitoring system.

Application/relevance: This system, for the first time, will allow fish farmers to monitor the health of each fish remotely, in real time, and to gather relevant (water quality and cage structural integrity) data for accurate risk assessment, forecasting and management. SEASTAR addresses the lack of full digitalisation in the sector, which forces the aquaculture operators to perform daily tasks and monitoring activities manually or with costly in-situ interventions.