Submitted by: Daniel Jaffe - co-founder Budsoft

 

 

Background:

 

Aquaponics is an ancient food production method that combines aquaculture with hydroponics that regain its popularity in the last few years. (ref. 1)

Aquaponics brings us a lot of advantages with respect to the conventional agriculture methods. Benefits include:

 

• Significant water saving

• High utilization of farmland

• High quality organic yield

 

However Aquaponics, especially in large / commercial scale, requires in-depth knowledge in various fields which probably prevents farmers and communities from adopting it.

 

Technological Brief

 

The technological goal is to make the Aquaponics knowledge more accessible for the common layman to effectively plan an Aquaponics system, monitor & log its progress & receive relevant advice on how to operate and mantain it over the time.

 

The app will offer the following features in its first phase (Cleanweb Hackaton):

 

• Aquaponics system planner using pre-defined formulas.

• Daily water chemistry cycle parameters logger.

• Advisory module that will analyze the daily parametrs input and output relevant advices

• Technological constraints

 

As the app is designed for emerging markets, we are required to use a technology that will allow us to address the widest possible audience with the lowest possible operational costs.

 

We must utilize cross-platform, open web technologies for the app front face, and for the backend development as well, so in the future we will have the possibility to merge frontend & backend to support areas without internet connections.

 

Aim for the Hackaton

 

We need an open-source cross platform development technology.

 

Possible technology:

 

• Node.JS for backend development

• MongoDB for our Database

• HTML4 that can be rendered in older versions of Gecko(Nokia Asha Platform) & Webkit browsers

• Full stack (JS) will allow us more easily build an offline version

 

Wanted:

 

Makers who believe in open source software & open source ecology and to be more specific:

 

• Web developers

• Aquaponics experts

• Web UX / Designers

• Branding specialist

 

Have other ideas? Contribute to this challenge on the Dev4Dev Cleanweb wiki and sign up to join the team.