AquaFeed AI — Precision Aquaculture Feeding Intelligence

Overview

AquaFeed AI is an edge-native precision feeding intelligence platform for commercial aquaculture operations, including marine sea cages, land-based recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), and intensive ponds. Pairing on-premise industrial edge gateways with a centralized Sensifai cloud control plane, AquaFeed AI delivers live appetite telemetry, automated water-safety interlocks, biomass growth analytics, and grounded AI operational intelligence.

The Problem

Feed represents 50% to 70% of commercial fish farming operational expenditure, yet manual and scheduled feeding routines cause 10% to 20% feed wastage due to unobserved appetite drops, pellet drift, and changing water conditions. Simultaneously, dissolved oxygen (DO) sags during high-metabolism feeding create acute hypoxia risks, resulting in severe stock stress, impaired feed conversion, or catastrophic mortality when automated feeders fail to stop delivery.

The Solution

AquaFeed AI eliminates guesswork by integrating real-time computer vision and acoustic appetite detection with a fail-safe control plane. Edge controllers monitor feeding vigor directly at the enclosure and stream high-frequency telemetry to the cloud. If dissolved oxygen drops below critical biological thresholds or appetite collapses, feeding is immediately halted by deterministic safety interlocks. Farm managers gain centralized multi-site oversight, audit-ready feed conversion records, and daily AI operational intelligence grounded strictly in verified telemetry.

Key Capabilities

• Real-Time Appetite Kinematics: Computes continuous appetite scores (0.00–1.00 at 1 Hz) on edge gateways using underwater video kinematics and hydrophone acoustics.
• Deterministic Oxygen Safety Interlock: Enforces a biological safety floor (default 4.5 mg/L DO) that immediately halts feeding during hypoxia conditions, independent of network status or AI outputs.
• Session Derivation & Waste Tracking: Automatically delineates feeding sessions, quantifies delivered feed, and calculates real-time waste fraction estimates.
• Production & Growth Analytics: Computes verified Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR) and Specific Growth Rate (SGR) against biomass sampling logs.
• Evidence-Linked Anomaly Alerts: Links 8 MB visual evidence video clips to automated alerts (hypoxia sags, feeder inhibits, appetite collapses) for rapid operator review.
• Grounded AI Daily Briefs & Copilot: Delivers site-level daily operational summaries and structured farm Q&A powered by Google Gemini, enforced by strict schema validation.
• Resilient Store-and-Forward Telemetry: Features authenticated edge gateway pairing (X-Device-Key) with local buffering to guarantee zero data loss during network dropouts.

Business Benefits

• Feed Cost Reduction: Minimizes uneaten pellets by automatically throttling delivery the moment appetite decelerates.
• Hypoxia Mortality Prevention: Safeguards stock against oxygen depletion events with hardware-level deterministic interlocks.
• Audit-Grade Efficiency Proof: Replaces manual logs with mathematical FCR/SGR tracking, validating feed supplier formulations.
• Centralized Multi-Site Oversight: Consolidates marine cages, RAS tanks, and ponds into a unified operational dashboard with role-based operator controls.

Use Cases

• Marine Salmon Farms: Optimizes surface spreader and canon feeding across sea cage clusters.
• RAS Facilities: Protects biofilter loading and oxygen balances in closed-loop systems.
• Intensive Ponds: Automates feeder shutoff during midday thermal stratifications and nocturnal oxygen drops.

How It Works

1. Edge Deployment: Industrial edge gateways connect to submerged cameras and water-quality sensors, executing lightweight neural inference at 1 Hz.
2. Autonomous Interlock & Ingestion: Edge controllers modulate feeder actuators locally while streaming telemetry batches to the Sensifai AquaFeed cloud.
3. Session & Growth Synthesis: The platform reconstructs feeding sessions, tracks daily feed caps, and evaluates alert thresholds in real time.
4. Actionable AI Delivery: Farm managers receive daily AI briefings highlighting anomalies and actionable feeding recommendations before the morning shift.