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As a maritime country with a sea area of 3.25 million square kilometres, Indonesia has tremendous potentials and one of them is in the form of offshore fish farming. To increase this potential, students of the Department of Marine Engineering, Faculty of Marine Technology (FTK) Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) initiated a design of a solar powered automatic offshore tuna cultivation tool.

One of the team members, Dinda Febriani says that Indonesia has great marine potential and needs to be maximized. One of the great potentials that need to be maximized is offshore tuna cultivation. Furthermore, she also states that currently, offshore fish farming in Indonesia is still done manually. It takes about 15 to 20 people per day to take care of the fish farm. Of course, there are work risks faced such as the high number of work accidents. Departing from these problems, the team chaired by Muhammad Akbar Hardian innovated to design an offshore fish farming tool called ‘ASTOR’ standing for Automatic Offshore Aquaculture with Solar Energy. This tool is designed to increase offshore tuna aquaculture production.

ASTOR is designed to operate automatically which is equipped with a monitoring system, feed feeding system, feed storage room, solar cell system, storage room, and security system using CCTV cameras.

The entire system can work on electrical energy generated by solar cells. The system is fed twice a day. The feed system will receive commands from sensors in the monitor system to issue feed. The sensor on the monitor is divided into two parts: the underwater sensor and the underwater camera. Both sensors are attached to the wall of the pond cage.