Description:Field of Invention
The invention relates to remotely controlled feeding with smart tracking system for aquatic animals. This invention primarily focuses on fish feeding by proposing a radio-controlled feeding with automatic smart tracking system. This system also measures the different parameters like water quality, temperature, overall surrounding etc. for obtaining the optimal level of fish farming.
The objectives of this invention
The invention aims to design a smart monitoring system that make aquaculture work easier by remotely controlled system for different purpose. This designed system will used to feeding the food using a boat that is loaded with food container. This will cover the entire area of pond and provide an efficient technology that makes the work easier of labour. This system also used to check the water quality which is very important for any aquatic animals. The water temperature can also used to identify using this system. The overall system will work for the labours to make their task easier and with less time.
Background of the Invention
Fisheries sector in India contribute about 9-12% in generating revenue for the government and more than 30 million people are directly getting employment from this sector. The importance of aquaculture increasing day by day as fish supply is growing across the country. To maintain the suitable water condition, temperature and feeding food is very important for the production and development of aquaculture. Traditional method is quite expensive and labor-intensive which completely depends upon the labor availability, fish species, farm sizes and fish sizes. Feeding of food in large farm with many small ponds where feeding will be possible once per day due to lack of labor and time. Therefore, a system developed in form of boat that contains in-built container that contains food for fish. Using this system farmer can easily feed the food in a controlled manner just by sitting anywhere and controlled the boat loaded with food using RF transmitter.Various smart controlling system comes in because of minimum labour involvement by adult person and deteriorating agricultural density, and the entire of the nation are facing huge shortage of labours in this sector, and this affect the aquaculture manufacturing. The suggested system primarily focusses on solving the issues that will arises and faced by various aquaculture cultivation industry in many countries. So, by constructing a boat based on IoT-dependent mechanism for controlling and monitoring fish using various IoT gadgets and it activates real-time gathering of data. It is beneficial to monitor and control the water-quality and other associated parameters which can be adjusted, tracked, and executed remotely. [Wei-Mon, Showkat, Min-Chi et. al.,Development of smart-aquaculture farm management system using IoT and AI-based surrogate models,Jrnl. of Agri.and Food Research, 9 (2022) 100357, Elsevier, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafr.2022.100357]. Quality of water is generally known as it affect directly to the health and it affect the growth rate of aquatic animalsand identify the successive of any aquaculture fish development. Nevertheless, it is very difficult to identify the quality of water and its early detection for aquaculture development facilities is also very challenging, as it needed high standard of technical knowledge of the physiochemical feature of water. Here, the complete management system associated with waterto manage the quality of water an intelligent system relies on IoT was designed and developed for aquaculture to track the pH, temperature, and turbidity value [Theddeus, Olumuyiwa, Olumide et. al., Design, and development of an IoT-based intelligent water quality management system for aquaculture, Jrnl. of Elect. Systs. and Inf. Techno., pp. 1-24, Springer, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1186/s43067-024-00139-z]. Farmers associated with small-scale industries surviving their life on ponds and they are not able to keep the workers to manage all the daily operations that involves water level controlling, temperature controlling and feeding shrimp/fish. Huge farms mostly consist of some facility of replacement automation, water tracking, for maintaining the growth and health of shrimp and fish. Small industry of farms, should try continuously to track temperature, pH level and water lever sooner and later they follow it for expand forms. [C Chandravathi, M. Monika, R Bala et. al., Smart Monitoring System for Pond, Management and Automation in Aquaculture, IEEE Int. Conf. on Comm. and Signal Proc., pp. 204-208, 2020]. Various people keep the pet fish and they feed them in aquarium and it required to have its proper set up and well maintained or, the fish will die due to the bad water content and have short life. Thus, it is very important to track the water conditions seriously and try to improve the quality of water for mini aquarium used in homes. IoT talk relies on IoT service, and suggested the Talk system that follow the concept of sensor for aquarium to execute the actuators for real-time case. [H Chung, Y Bing et. al., FishTalk: An IoT-Based Mini Aquarium System, IEEE Access, Vol. 7, pp. 35457-35469, 2019]

Desscription of Prior Art
The usefulness representation reveals an aquaculture tracking structure, and associate with technical domain of aquaculture. The hydroponics/ aquaculture tracking structure consist of an image gathering devices, a deliver gadget, and a control gadget. The image gathering gadgets consist of a camera, the deliver gadgets consist of a signal refining module with wireless element as first, the control gadget consist of wireless element as second and a computer system. The camera is now linked with the signal refining section using a signal transference using optical cable, this signal refining elements is linked with starting wireless elements, and next wirelesselement is to gather received signal by the staring wireless elements, and next wireless elements is to gather received signal by the starting wiles elements and transfer the gathered signal to the computer system. With the horticulture/aquaculture tracking system, state facts can be gathered in real-time, illness and death of shrimp/fishes. It is helpful in identifying such issues automatically and thus reducing the losses in aquaculture. The wireless transmission mean is adopted, so that it will help to overcome the difficulty arises in wiring of remote access is short out. The advantages of such monitoring are that it can set as per the needs, and thus provide more flexibility and adaptability for the enhanced system. Therefore, such aquaculture tracking structure is acceptable to huge-scale fish farming (CN203606673U). The current innovation associated with an automatic management of aquaculture, that consist of a container attached with a boat and this boat carry medicine, food, and use advantages of sensor in a container for producing a signal when any container of medicine and food get exhaust. A camera is also mounted in the complete setup for gathering aquaculture images and refine it using artificial intelligence (AI) module in order to attain the exact co-ordinators of horticulture/aquaculture. A control module is also connected with a camera for tracking he co-ordinates of the boat and mange it accordingly, a wiper unit is also associated with the boat that is used to clean the aquaculture and the feeding section for spreading and food to the horticulture/aquaculture (201911032201 A).
Summary of the Invention
This invention focuses on minimization of effort for distribution of food, reducing labour cost, monitoring of water parameters by proposing a system named “POSHARK” for the correct practice management of fish feeding converted with its economic as well environmental advantages. Proposed invented systemcan offer many useful solutions to the people working in fish farming. Some important applications of invention areeven distribution of feed to a large area, Remote access facility and control feeding that reduce the labour cost to a great extent, Continuous monitoring facility of water parameters for better environment and proper growth of aquatic animals.This invention primarily focused on aquatic animals and the conditions in which the aquatic animals survive. The old traditional approach is shown in figure 1 where the feeding will be done manually and it is a time consuming as well it will be possible up to few meters. Also, the feeding will not possible to all locations and this will be much time consuming and more dependent task.

Detailed Description of Invention
The overall structure of the proposed invention is depicted in figure 2 below which consist of PVC panel on which complete functioning system was setup. The system of power supply unit, motor, rotor, food storage box, power cable etc. The basic material used is plastic (PVC pipe) on which complete system was setup (constructed) to make it highly stable, light weight and to fix all the electronics components in a better way. It also lowers down the cost of designing and it will be economical. The various electronics components and tools are used in designing and testing this system which is stated below and the proposed model functioning is shown in figure 3.Atmega 2560 is one type of microcontroller based in board which consist of fifty-four output and input pins and out of fifteen can be used for PWM output, it consists of sixteen analog input pins, four hardware port (serial 4 UARTs), 16MHz SOCIALLTOR (crystal), a connection using US, a power point, reset button and a header (ICSP).It requires power supply of 7– 12V and 20mA DC current. It has memory of 8KB SRAM, 256KB FLASH, 4KB EEPROM. Motor Shield: The VNH2SP30-E consist of a whole bridge motor which drives the complete range for automatic purposes. The monster motor shield uses a voltage of 16 V and maximum current range will be 30 A. The monster motor shield takes on-resistance of 19 mO (per leg) with a maximum PWM frequency of 20 kHz.Servo motors and its name is MG995 which is act as servo motor and it is highly reliable in term of duty and act as motor with a very effective feature of low energy consumption and very cost-effective. It consists of dual ball bearing shock proof design and act as servo and this make it quite reliable and flexible for various industrial manufacturing. Servo motor have a very fast response and moves at a very high-speed using an operating voltage of 4.8 – 7.2 volts. The operating motor speed at 4.8 V: 0.2 sec/60 degrees with a torque of 4.8 V i.e., 8.5 kgf-cm and takes maximum load current consumption of 1200 mA. It is mostly used for the robotics as consumer and related project. It also uses Johnson mechanical based motor which is simple with DC feature and metal properties for moving the shaft present in the motor. As, it is mechanical and commutated DC motor which consume DC power supply. Now, now the motor is ready to run smoothly between the voltage from six to eighteen-volt DC supply and supply us a 500 RPM using twelve power supply. It is suitable to provide a torque of one kilogram at five hundred RPM. Robotic purposes and it can be utilized for different applications which includes cleaning, vending system, household appliance using the Johnson motors.
Transmitter & Receiver (6 channel): FS–i6 has 6 level channel and operates in the frequency range of 2.405– 2.475 GHz receiver and transmitter. It requires power supply of 6V 1.5AA*4 and has bandwidth of 500KHZ. The FS– 6 has transmitter and receiver and can operate up to 1500 meters. The main advantage of this transmitter is that does not require any PC or laptop to set up this transmitter. Battery (2200 mAh).Here,lithium polymer battery called Li-po battery is used for the operation. It has a charge capacity (C) of 2200 mAh and rated voltage of 11.1 V. High energy density - potential for yet higher capacities and does not need prolonged priming when new. One regular charge is all that is needed with relatively low self-discharge is less than half that of nickel-based batteries. Low maintenance required as no periodic discharge is needed also, there is no memory requirements for its operation.LCD display (16x2): LCD stands for liquid crystal display and is used to display the output on the screen. The LCD use here is of sixteen cross two and it is of 16 pins which consist of two rows that can fit sixteen character each. These sixteen crosses two LCD can be utilize for four-bit and eight-bit mode. It also contains eight data and three control segment that can be utilized for control applications. The maximum operating range of this LCD is 4.7 volts to 5.3 volts.

For temperature identification, DSI8B20 used which is one type of sensor used to measure the temperature and it give nine bit and twelve-bit temperature readings. The power supply range will be from 3 volts to 5.5 volts and it is equal to -67 to 257 (°F). The complete range of temperature will be evaluated from -55 to +125 (°C). now, ground Pin1 is used with circuit in terminal, pin number 2 i.e. Vcc provide power supply to the sensor from range of 3.3 volt to 5 volt and starts communication using 1-wire approach. Pin number three is used to transfer the value of temperature and pH sensor now work for the power of hydrogen and calculate the hydrogen ion. pH sensor takes the supply voltage of 3.3-5.5V. It requires the output voltage in between 0-3.0V. pH sensor takes respond time of < 2min and has internal resistance of < 250M O. The pH scale in totality is varies from one to fourteen and with the seven considered to be unbiased and the pH device calculates the overall difference in potential among pH electrode and electrode in reference. Sometime the pH meter is also known as potentiometric meter used to calculate pH. This invented model focus try to calculate the overall hydrogen-ion movement in the water with the solution based representing its acidity and it will be expressed as pH.

The power supply of 30A was supplied to the motor which uses 12V to accelerate the system and in centre of the system there were rotor of 1000 KV which is used to feed the aquatic animal which moves 360 degrees with uniform speed.As, the food is dumped into the pond in the mean while the water pH level is measured by the pH sensor and the temperature is measured by the Temperature sensor. FS–i6 remote control used as a transmitter and receiver to control the system which operate up to 1500 meters and it can be extended using different model. These all-above components are assembled on the plastic PVC panel and using 6-channel transmitter and receiver remote all the activity was controlled in an easy way. The direction can also to controlled using the same remote-control device just by sitting at one end of the pond or lake.By using this Remote-controlled Feeding and Smart Monitoring system, one can use this as a replacement of manual work of feeding the aquatics and can also monitor the required water pH and temperature content for the aquatics, it is displayed on LCD screen on top of the boat.The food is deployed using metallic servo motors, as shown in the above figure 4. Each has a load capacity of around 5kg and the food is deployed by the servo motors eventually falls on the exact ground position of the boat’s movement blades which help the food to spread evenly around the boat path and in this way the complete process works as shown in figure 5.

Brief description of Drawing
In the figures which are illustrated exemplary embodiments of the invention.
Figure 1. Prototype of proposed invention
Figure 2. Block diagram of the proposed system functioning
Figure 3. Structure of invented model (hardware design)
Figure 4. Methodology followed by proposed invention

Detailed description of the drawing

Figure 1 represents proposed invented system that consist of various components which includes motor, microcontroller, food bucket etc. This system will help not only to spread the food but it also detects the water quality and temperature. The complete system is designed to make the work easier of the farmer working these areas.

Figure 2 illustrates the proposed system functioning on which entire works. It consists of pH sensor, motor, LCD display, temperature sensor, receiver, driver, and microcontroller ATMEGA2560. The integration of all these componentsmakes the successful functioning of the system and control the overall functioning of the system.

Figure 3 depicts the physical structure of invented model in hardware form. It consists of rotor, box, battery, PVC panel etc. The complete system is designed and tested in small pond of area 100 meters or more to verify its working and it gives better results.

Figure 4 represents the methodology for the successful execution of invention. The complete steps from starting to end is stated in this figure from enabling, controlling, moving, and stopping of the system is highlighted. , Claims:The following claims define the scope of the invention:
Claims:
1. The invention is to provide a remote-Controlled Feeding and Smart Monitoring System for Aquaculture, which automates feeding, reducing labour costs and improving efficiency.

a) The precise control over feed distribution ensures optimal nutrient delivery, maximizing growth and minimizing waste.
b) The smart monitoring and analysis allow for precise feeding adjustments, reducing overfeeding and minimizing feed waste.
c) The real-time monitoring of water parameters allows for immediate adjustments, ensuring a healthy and stable environment.

2. As per claim 1, the automated feeding minimizes fish stress, leading to better growth rates and overall health. The continuous data analysis enables the early detection of potential issues, allowing for timely intervention and preventing disease outbreaks.

3. According to claim 1, the optimized feeding leads to minimized waste and reduces the impact on aquatic ecosystems. The automation simplifies tasks and reduces the need for manual labour.