Umitron

Cutting-edge solutions in precision feeding and environmental monitoring

The ocean is one of the most valuable resources, covering over 70% of our planet, providing millions of jobs, revenue and services and serving as a major food source. However, with a huge population boom expected by 2050, the way that we produce food to meet global demand needs to be sustainable to ensure that we can preserve our marine resources for future generations. With this in mind, UMITRON was established by Ken Fujiwara, Takuma Okamoto and Masahiko Yamada, with its headquarters in Singapore and a secondary office in Japan.

Since 2016, Umitron has been using a combination of IoT, artificial intelligence and satellite remote sensing technologies to create cutting-edge solutions catered to the aquaculture industry to address crucial areas of concern, such as precision feeding for multiple commercial species and environmental monitoring.

Regardless of species, feeding has always been one of the essential elements in aquaculture production, often comprising up to 70% of a farm’s operational costs and taking up a significant portion of the daily workload. Therefore, farmers need to have good feed management practices to avoid overfeeding and underfeeding, which usually result in unnecessary feed wastage and pollution of the surrounding waters. The company has achieved an excellent track record with various regional and international producers with Umitron Remora for fish feeding. For shrimp producers, it is currently collaborating with Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) in Thailand to use Umitron Eagle, a solution that provides real-time analyses and advanced AI detection to track appetite, health and other factors in intensive production environments.

Access to multi-parameter industry-centric data via Umitron Pulse also assists farmers in planning for adverse weather events and creating suitable operational protocols for varying conditions throughout the year. Used in tandem with precision feeding, they allow producers to achieve maximum farm output whilst keeping a close eye on their production environment to prevent unnecessary harm and maintain a healthy surrounding ecosystem.

To date, Umitron’s team has succeeded in helping farms worldwide involved in multiple commercial species, ranging from Atlantic salmon to red sea bream, to improve their feeding operations. Pulse has also received positive feedback from its over 600 global users, many of whom use the service for daily monitoring and planning for upcoming adverse farming conditions.

“We are excited to expand our global footprint to help more producers achieve better production performance. In particular, Umitron Eagle would be an ideal solution for shrimp producers in Southeast Asia, especially for farms in Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia. Looking further along the value chain, we’re also keen to take on the challenge of connecting farms using Umitron technologies to the retail market and importing or exporting their products to consumers and restaurants,” said Masahiko Yamada.

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