Development of a Shellfish Aquaculture Industry Management System

Oyster aquaculture is a rapidly expanding WA industry sector, supported by recent government investment in a commercial hatchery to produce juvenile "seed" and the identification of large areas of the WA coastline suited to industry development. Oyster production is reliant on naturally occurring food sources, is environmentally sustainable and can benefit the ecosytems in which it is undertaken.

Oyster aquaculture is generally undertaken at large scale (eg 100s of hectares) with oysters being cultured in progressively reduced densities through a succession of baskets or increasing mesh size which are suspended on fixed longlines ( https://seapa.com.au/ ). ALI is investing in the development of oyster aquaculture and wishes to develop a bespoke software system to manage the extensive data collection associated with its oyster farms. This is necessary to support efficient data collection and inventory management in what is a highly research and data dependent industry. There is increasing global interest in the development of such systems (eg http://www.smartoysters.com/ ; https://www.oystertracker.com/ ) though these systems have limited functionality and ability to harness the research date required to develop the WA industry (which is in a research phase and focused on new species of oysters only found in WA).

ALI wishes to develop a GIS-integrated oyster farm management system to apply to efficient data collection associated with its oyster interests. The project specification will include:

Site layout and infrastructure mapping using GIS User-friendly field data collection using mobile enabled technology (eg oyster sizes, weights,numbers, temperature, biofouling, observations) and database integration Individual oyster basket history identification and historical data association (eg based upon scannable RFID tags) Data export and data "dashboard"

Client


Contact: Dr Mike Snow
Phone: 0418711096
Email: [email protected]
Preferred contact: Phone,Email
Location: 22 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009

IP Exploitation Model


The IP exploitation model requested by the Client is: IP to be assigned to the project proposer(s)


Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering
The University of Western Australia
Last modified: 27 July 2019
Modified By: Michael Wise 		UWA