Microcomputer-based Water Quality Monitoring and Control System

在美国，集约化水产养殖技术的使用越来越重视保持水质。开发低成本和可靠的自动化水质和饲料条件监测和控制系统将为研究和商业水产养殖者提供一种手段，以维持孵化场、苗圃、养殖和饲料生产系统的水质。从研究和商业水产养殖者和仪器制造商收集的信息表明，设计适当的监测/控制系统需要四个要素：对水产养殖至关重要的生物、物理和化学参数的了解；仪器(和校准)经验；微型计算机编程能力；有控制装置和电子理论方面的经验。到目前为止，还没有协调努力将这四个要素结合起来，以形成一个完整的水产养殖监测和控制系统。利用现成的环境传感器、微型计算机和由软件模块集成的控制设备，将大大减轻集约化水产养殖系统中与维持水质有关的问题。

The use of intensive aquaculture techniques in the United States has placed an increasing emphasis on maintaining water quality. Development of a low-cost and reliable automated water quality and feed condition monitoring and control system would provide both research and commercial aquaculturists with a means of maintaining water quality for hatchery, nursery, grow-out and feed production systems. Information gathered from both research and commercial aquaculturists and instrument manufacturers has indicated that four elements are required to design an appropriate monitoring/control system: an understanding of the biological, physical and chemical parameters critical to aquaculture; experience in instrumentation (and calibration); microcomputer programming capability; and experience with control devices and electronic theory. To date there have been no coordinated efforts to integrate these four elements to produce a complete system of monitoring and control for aquaculture. Utilization of off- the-shelf environmental sensors, microcomputers and control devices integrated by software modules would go far in alleviating the problems attendant to maintaining water quality in intensive aquaculture systems.