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An IoT‐based water contamination analysis for aquaculture using lightweight multi‐headed GRU model

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Maintaining the quality of water is essential for the health and productivity of aquatic organisms, including fish in aquaculture ponds. However, water contamination can severely impact fish health and survival, making it necessary to develop monitoring systems that can detect early signs of water contamination. Initial deep learning models had limitations in capturing the temporal and spatial dependencies of time-series data, which can lead to inaccurate predictions. In this paper, we propose a smart monitoring system that uses IoT devices to collect water quality data and segment it into contaminated and non-contaminated categories based on a water toxic index (WTI), a measure of water contamination levels. To address the limitations of early deep learning models for classification of toxic and non-toxic water quality, an enhanced light-weight multi-headed gated recurrent unit (MHGRU) model that captures the spatial and temporal dependencies of water quality parameters. Our study demonstrates that the proposed model outperforms existing models, achieving an impressive accuracy of 99.7% when evaluated on real-time data. Notably, our model also excels when tested on a public dataset, achieving an accuracy of 99.12%. In comparison, best performed existing ANN models achieve accuracies of 99.52% and 98.71% on the respective datasets.

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Both the authors have equally contributed for this work. The contributions of individuals are as listed below: Peda Gopi Arepalli: concepts, development of methodologies, sensor and Arduino board design and assembling, dataset collection and creation, experimentation, results analysis, and writing of the original draft. Jairam Naik K: concepts, experimentation, results analysis, writing, document review, editing and overall supervision. All authors read before submission and approved the final manuscript for submission.

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Arepalli, P.G., Naik, K.J. An IoT‐based water contamination analysis for aquaculture using lightweight multi‐headed GRU model. Environ Monit Assess 195, 1516 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-023-12126-4

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