ECOFARM: SMART AQUAPONICS SYSTEM WITH INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) FOR THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY

This study focuses on evaluating the effectiveness of smart aquaponics system as
monitoring and controlling mechanism for agriculture and fishery activities among the
indigenous community. An investigation is conducted towards ten indigenous people
at RPS Pos Legap, Sungai Siput, Perak in using the aquaponics system. This study
utilised several types of sensor to read values of real-time conditions in the aquaponics
tank connected to NodeMCU ESP32 as the microcontroller that will send the data to
the server. A mobile application is developed to receive the data from the server in
real-time and display it to the indigenous farmer. The results revealed that smart
aquaponics system had ease the activities among indigenous people in controlling and
monitoring the farm. In addition, the observations highlighted that indigenous people
are more interested, focus and accepted in using smart aquaponics system as assistive
tools in their agriculture and fishery activities.