Abstract-A versatile, low power solution in monitoring and is being applied in the industry. However, these models require
control system based on ZigBee network and National a huge initial investment cost(minimum of three hundred
Instrument (NI) myRIO is presented in this study. A ZigBee thousand USD to one hectare) and are only suitable for large
based wireless sensor network (WSN) combined with a series of scale farming businesses. Soonhee Han et al. has designed and
low power embedded MSP430 was used as a node in the system built an environmental monitoring system for aquaculture
to monitor, control the critical environmental conditions like
farms [3, 4, 5, 6]. However, this system is based on a wired
temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen. Besides that, NI myRIO was
network, so the transmission is not only problematic, but it is
used as a server to control all the sensor nodes in this system. NI
also difficult to expand.
myRIO is an embedded controller based on core Xylinx Zynq
with real-time performance. Moreover, a friendly Graphical User On the other hand, in recent years, there are many
Interface (GUI), programmed with LabVIEW, is designed to published works focused on wireless networks. Among these
collect, analyze and present data on the monitor for the end works, the so-called ZigBee network [7, 8, 9] draws much
users, makes it easy to use. The system also allows the end users attention due to the merit of reliable, low power network. It
to get updated data online from sensors based on Google adopts IEEE802.15.4 standards, and free global public
Spreadsheets application, to send alert message through SMS
frequency 2.4 GHz. It is currently regarded as one of the most
service to prompt user when needed or to monitor the system on
promising technologies to replace wired network because of
Android smartphone. Thus, a minimization of environmental
reliance, simple, small size and less expensive. In this work, a
fluctuations caused by sudden changes as well as manpower are
wireless sensor network is developed, applied to the
reduced. The proposed system has been successfully designed
measurement of temperature, humidity, and oxygen in the
with a reliable, fast response and easy to use with friendly GUI. It
environment shrimp ponds.The control platform consists of NI
is suitable for small to medium sized farming operations as it
does not require any refitting or reconstruction of the pond.
myRIO to control all the system[10]. One of the benefit of
myRIO is real-time performance and customization I/O. Then
Keywords-Aquaculture;CC2530; Lab VIEW; the friendly GUI is developed to achieve data from sensor
NImyRlO;Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN); ZigBee. network anywhere via web application as well as Android
application. The system is monitored real-time and can be
I. INTRODUCTION controlled manual or automatically.
In recent years, the development of technology has been The remainder of thiswork presents as follows. Section
rapidly improving and applying in aquaculture, also known as IIdescribes the system design. The hardware and routing
aqua-farming, in Mekong Delta in the south-east Vietnam. protocol development are proposed in Section III.The
However, shrimp farms were currently fed manually in almost experimental results are presented in Section IV. Then
household. A successfully shrimp farming depends on conclusion and suggestionare discussedin Section V.
management of the environmental factors such asstratified
water temperature, pH, and dissolved oxygen (DO) levels in II. OVERALL SYSTEM
the water as well as good fundamentals such as good seeds and
An effective management of shrimp ponds is needed to
quality food [1,2]. Most of ponds currently were monitored
detect disease problems and to respond immediately before any
manually and irregularly, mostly according to the farmers'
uncontrollable issue [1]. Any changes of the environmental
experience. Besides of that, all procedures are done manually
factors such as weather, growing conditions, etc. will
when phenomenon occurs. Commonly, shrimp farmers use
contribute significantly to the health of the shrimp in the pond.
mechanical paddle-wheels that have to be turned on and off
Hence, monitoring these conditions takes an important role in
manually to slap, beat and churn oxygen into the surface of the
supervision the health of the shrimps. A WSN is an advanced
water. The system is operated manually based on experience
solution compared to traditional monitoring method. The entire
and not based on any actual measurement mechanism. Thus, it
systemof the proposed design is shown in Fig. 1. To support
costs a lot of time, manpower and money to run such
the scalability of the system, three models of sensor nodes are
mechanism. A number of shrimp farms closed and automation
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controlnetwork is used to control the oxygen pumping system Zig Bee End Device (RFD or FFD)
at each pond. Then, the sensor nodes as well as control nodes --Mesh Link
in each pond wirelessly communicate with the master station Figure 3. Mesh topology for the proposed monitoring and control system.
through a node called the cluster header. Finally, a
management station which is the heart of the system is built (b)
with high reliable device,NI myRIO. The wireless protocol
used to communicate between nodes in this system isbased on
the IEEE 802.11.4 standard with high security. The server with
database system to store data is the window system to interact
with the user through a friendly GUI programmed by
LabVIEW. When the system work, MSP430 acquires data
from sensors and displays on Liquid Crystal Display (LCD). At
the same time, the collected datawill be transmitted to the
server through CC2530 and displayed on the GUI built-in
LabVIEW. The data is sent to the base station in a time frame
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material. This time frame can be appropriately changed Figure 4. (a) Block diagram of proposed sensor end node. (b) Proposed
according to the analysis on gathered environmental factors. sensor end node circuit deplovment.
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