The Marine Research Center participated in the design of a floating feeding system for autonomous, intelligent, easily transportable and energy-efficient fish farm fattening. The platform, promoted by a consortium led by Feeding Systems, was presented today at the Montajes Cancelas facilities, in Moaña, in the presence of Patricia Argerey, director of the Galician Innovation Agency (GAIN), and several representatives of all the members of the consortium, formed by the companies Feeding Systems, Engranor, Quantum Innovative, Montajes Cancelas and the University of Vigo, in which the CIMA group of the School of Industrial Engineering participates in addition to the CIM. The project was developed within the framework of the Conecta Peme 2018 program, subsidized by GAIN with the support of the Department of Economy, Employment and Industry of the Xunta de Galicia and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the EU.
The final prototype presented is the result of the Seafeed project, which was launched in March 2018 with the aim of designing and manufacturing a feeder that would serve small and medium-sized aquaculture farms and meet the need of the Galician aquaculture industry to have its own developments supported by technological innovations. During the development of the project, the business community and the researcher joined forces to create an ad hoc system that would adapt to smaller farms. The CIM staff contributed their knowledge to define the biological parameters of the aquaculture species that define the performance and intelligent control of the whole.
Now the stage of commercialization of the designs is ahead, which will be directly handled by Feeding System SL, through Fish Farm Feeder. In recent months and once the construction of this first unit has been completed, the consortium has already been contacted by six companies interested in having one of these feeders, so Fish Farm Feeder is moderately optimistic about the commercial future of the project.
The research activity of the CIM has the support of the Xunta de Galicia and the European Union, through its co-financing under the FEDER/FSE Galicia 2014-2020 Operational Program.
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