Smart Aquaponics System: Design and Implementation using Arduino Microcontroller

Abstract

This paper presents a low-cost design of smart aquaponics system. Aquaponics is a combination of aquaculture, which is growing fish and other aquatic animals, and hydroponics which is growing plants without soil. Aquaponics uses these two in a symbiotic combination in which plants are fed the aquatic animals' discharge or waste. In this work, Arduino microcontroller has been used to control the inputs from several sensors. Based on the sensory input, the Arduino will then control the output to motors. The cost of building the system was not exceeded USD100. The fabricated smart aquaponics system were tested, all functionality of the system were working as intended.