Techna-X Berhad’s wholly owned subsidiary, Wavetree Technologies Sdn Bhd (WT), has signed a 5-year partnership agreement with Sabah-based Borneo Eco Star Sdn Bhd (BES) to jointly develop and commercialize a Smart Integrated Aquaculture Platform for sustainable aquafarming in Malaysia.
Under the 5-year partnership agreement, WT will be deploying an aquaculture IoT solution worth an estimated RM2.6 million for BES’s planned 102 ponds at UiTM-BES Innovation and Smart Aquaculture Centre.
WT has the largest Agriculture IoT deployment footprint in Malaysia, Indonesia and South America.
Smart Integrated Aquaculture Platform will utilize the latest technologies in IoT, software platform, data analytic and and A.I. combined with aquaculture expertise and operational knowhow to create an advanced IoT-based platform accessible to all scale of operations, for the digitalization of data capturing and the analysis of such data.
Amongst some of the capabilities of the Smart Integrated Aquaculture Platform includes automatic environmental monitoring, water-quality sensing and control, feed optimization, fish/prawn health monitoring, workforce management, as well as yield prediction, utilizing IoT wireless sensors, mobile app, cloud-based A.I. and Big Data Analytics.
The aquaculture industry in Malaysia stands to benefit greatly from digitalization and automation, as the IoT-enabled smart farming solutions become more accessible, this market is estimated to be worth RM147 million in Malaysia in 2021 and will be expected to grow to RM313 million by 2026.
“Sabah has been a successful state in aquaculture farming and we are very excited to be partnering BES in this innovative development for the aquaculture industry as this will see a capable technology being deployed in Malaysia for the aquaculture industry. We believe our technology and experience will contribute greatly to BES and UiTM’s Innovative and Smart Aquaculture Centre in Kota Kinabalu. The resultant IoT platform will also benefit both small and large scale aquaculture businesses alike, while playing a significant role in the nation’s drive towards food security and resiliency against climate change.”, said Vince Ng, Head of Technology Division of Techna-X / CEO of Wavetree.
BES recently in December 2021 signed an MoU with UiTM, to establish a long-term partnership on the development of a state-of-the-art Innovative and Smart Aquaculture Centre (UiTM-BES ISAC) in Sabah. UiTM-BES ISAC aims to transform and improve aquaculture farm management using latest monitoring tools with Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data that will benefit both the farming industry and students in agriculture studies.
