Idea/Approach Details

Technology Bucket : Miscellaneous Category: Hardware

Company Name/ Ministry Name: Usha Fisheries / Central Ministry Problem Code : AU1
Team Leader Name : MANOJ T College Code : C-37054

This idea is fully based on automatic food feeding system. It will supply the food
automatically at a time in various parts of the hatchery by using a boat. It uses two
long parallel pipes at both side of the boat. In between the pipe hoppers are fixed by
using screw nut. The foods are supplied at different places of the hatchery So, the
unwanted fighting of fish for food can be avoided at one particular place. The entire
system is controlled and automated by Arduino units. It doesn’t require man power to
drive boat and supply food. It is maintenance free system. It is user friendly and also
easy to operate manually. It is easy to carry everywhere as it is less weighted. Power
consumption is low.

1. This system for feeding fish food is fully automated.

2. Low man power is required for operating it.
3. It evenly distributes the food in pond.
4. It reduce unnecessary fish fighting during food supply
5. The system requires less power to run.
6. It can control the feed rate of food, have good accuracy, sensitivity.
7. It need one time investment for entire system
 Idea / Approach details
Here we are using a steel cable, which tightly hanged up in between the river for
positioning guidance for the boat. The boat has proximity metal detecting sensor to
detect the non-metallic parts that arranged in the cable. The cable has non-metallic
arrangement in series after certain distances to stop the boat, where we have to feed
food. When the boat starts from initial position, the sensor gets start by detecting the
steel cable, after certain distance when it reaches non-metallic object which already
placed in the cable, the sensor detects that there is no metal, at that time the driver
motor and proximate sensor will deactivate to stop the boat movement. So assume this
is the stop number one. The other functions get activated. In this condition the
proximate sensor won’t read the current the status. we have already given a condition
that activates the time delay process for certain times, which is around for 3 minutes.
During this short period of time the food feeding system will start to feed the food till
the end of time delay condition. The food feeding system is the arrangement of number
of Hopper’s which is placed at both side of the boat. This Hopper nozzle is controlled by
using servo motor to flow the food. When the time delay process gets started, the servo
motor will get the signal from micro controller to open the nozzle valve of Hopper. After
the end of time delay process, the micro controller sends the signal to the same servo
motor to get to its original position (closed position) to close the valve. Now both driver
motor and proximate sensor get activated till next stop. This same process is repeated
for each stop.
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