CASE STUDY: HOW BETTER DATA IS BUILDING MUSSEL EXPORTS

摘要

An interesting business case study of loT in action is Adroit's Westpac Mussels partnership.Westpac Mussels is a 50-year-old family business at the cutting edge of New Zealand's aquaculture industry and with a willingness to work with new technology.Westpac wanted to streamline harvesting and ensure the food safety of their product green shell mussels, which are exported all over the world. Past harvesting options included monitoring rainfall or use of legacy salinity data buoys. These options were crude leading to longer closures, less harvesting opportunities, and required weekly cleaning at considerable cost.Adroit's solution is a new-design data buoy, housing an in-situ salinity sensor connected to a Libelium loT logger. It measures ocean water salinity every 15 minutes, sending the results directly to Westpac Mussels over Spark's CatM1 loT network.