BUOYS, FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE JOIN THE INTERNET OF THINGS

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In order to better understand the quake- and tsunami-altered conditions of the Pacific Ocean, both companies independently developed buoys equipped with underwater cameras and sensors that could gather data and send it via wireless modules to cloud servers.

Docomo’s ICT Buoy provides data on sea conditions, such as temperature and salinity concentration — critical information for aquaculture businesses — while KDDI’s “smart buoy” estimates the following day’s catch size.

Both sets of data are transmitted to fishermen’s phones via a dedicated app.

“We thought that by providing an estimate of the next day’s catch, we could help the fishermen, and … reduce overfishing,” says Masayoshi Fukushima of KDDI’s IoT Business Promotion division.

KDDI has continued to research prediction systems that can work independently of big data, and figures collected to date indicate predictions and actual catch size are converging significantly, says Fukushima.

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