NBB backs Polytechnic students to develop Smart Aquaculture System

TDT | Manama                 

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com 

The National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) is sponsoring a group of 8 students from Bahrain Polytechnic in the completion of their Smart Aquaculture System project known as “Medaar”.

The Bank’s support will further assist the students in their research and development, allowing them to finalise their environmental initiatives.

This project was conducted at Bahrain Polytechnic’s Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) which is supported by the Labour Fund (Tamkeen) and by utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies, with the aim to develop a smart system to control and monitor the aquaculture environment and contribute to achieving local and regional food security goals.

Through the bank’s support, the students will be provided with the necessary resources to create an Internet of Things (IoT) solution that will provide real-time and automated readings of temperature and dissolved oxygen levels.

Professor Ciarán Ó Catháin, CEO of Bahrain Polytechnic, said: “The Smart Aquaculture System project aims to improve the Kingdom’s economic sector by enhancing the overall production of fish hatcheries, which, in turn, will impact our community for the better.”

Hisham Abu Alfateh, Head of Corporate Communications at NBB, said; “We believe the project will contribute positively to our community and develop Bahrain’s environmental system.”