Method for monitoring and controlling in real-time the non-consumed food in fish farms
OwnerClaudio Chanceaulme Willemsen, Raul Alvarez Gaticainventors
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Abstract
The invention is a method that, by processing captured images by means of a submarine camera (1) located inside a fish breeding cage (11) and under the mass of fish or feeding zone (12), allow to detect and quantify in real-time the non-consumed particles of food (13). The submarine camera (12) captures images that are sent (14)(15) to a computer (16), which, by means of a software, digitalizes and quantifies the particles in real-time, making alarms or actions when the number of particles reaches established patterns.
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- A method that uses images in real-time, for obtaining information of the non consumed particles of food by fish in fish breeding raft-cages CHARACTERIZED in that it comprises a submarine camera located inside the raft-cage, focused preferably upwardly, under the feeding zone of fish, in order to make images that are transmitted to a computer that, by means of a software acquire the images, interprets, analyzes and discriminates the food particles, quantifying them in real time making visual or sonorous alarms, that stops or reduces the feeding rate.
- A method that uses images in real-time, for obtaining information of the non consumed particles of food by fish in fish breeding raft-cages CHARACTERIZED in that it can control all the automatic feeding system.
- A method that uses images in real-time, for obtaining information of the non consumed particles of food by fish in fish breeding raft-cages CHARACTERIZED in that it can record the quantity of provided food making graphic reports.
- A method that uses images in real-time, for obtaining information of the non consumed particles of food by fish in fish breeding raft-cages CHARACTERIZED in that said reports can be exported by physical means and/or through the internet.