Development of An Automated IoT-based Fish Tank Maintenance Assistive System

The proposed prototype of a fish tank maintenance automation system intends to support aquarists in terms of easy up keep of the fish tank. Keeping a household fish tank is associated with significant health benefits including lessening stress, sleep quality improvement, lowered blood pressure, intense focus, and soothing effects for Alzheimer’s patients, etc. A predominant part of keeping fish healthy is ensuring that their habitat remains healthy. As part of the routine maintenance of a fishtank some of the vital parameters that are to be keenly assessed are nitrate, nitrite, pH, carbonate hardness, salinity, etc. Since fish live in entirely diverse environments compared to humans and other pets, they are dependent on humans for all their necessities including food, water, and proper habitat. Fish tanks are relatively different from natural habitat since they are closed systems with a limited capacity of water. Thus, the entire process of the natural method of cleaning a water body has to be performed manually in the fish tank in addition to cleaning the wastes produced regularly by fish such as sediments, sludge, etc. Therefore, to ease aquarists towards maintaining fish tanks, this paper proposes an automation system using IoT technology and also guards environmental sustainability. If the observed data such as pH, temperature, and dissolved oxygen are beyond the threshold limits then the attached beeper will be aware of the aquarists to instant care of the fish tank. The live data is provided through a web-based application and Mobile app for real-time monitoring and decision-making.