OptoScale provides real-time monitoring equipment for fish farms, utilizing advanced modules to measure fish weight, health, and lice levels without manual handling. This technology enables fish farmers to enhance fish welfare, reduce operational costs, and optimize production efficiency through precise data analysis.
Funding
$4.3M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
Fish farms face challenges in accurately monitoring fish weight, health, and lice levels, often relying on manual handling which can be stressful for the fish and labor-intensive for the farmers. Inefficient monitoring can lead to suboptimal feeding strategies, increased disease risk, and difficulties in planning harvesting, ultimately impacting profitability and fish welfare.
Solution
OptoScale provides real-time monitoring solutions for aquaculture, enabling fish farmers to remotely track key indicators of fish health and growth without manual handling. Their core product, the Bioscope, is a submerged camera system that captures thousands of images daily, using AI to analyze fish weight, welfare parameters, and lice counts. Data is accessible through a unified web portal, providing insights into average weight, growth rates, condition factor (K-factor), size distribution, welfare indicators (such as fin status and presence of wounds), and lice counts. This allows for optimized feeding, early detection of health issues, and improved harvest planning.
Target Audience
OptoScale targets fish farm operators and aquaculture companies raising salmon and rainbow trout, seeking to improve fish welfare, optimize production, and reduce operational costs through data-driven insights.
Features
- Submersible Bioscope unit captures 10,000-40,000 images daily for comprehensive data collection.
- AI-powered image analysis for automated weight estimation, lice counting, and welfare assessment.
- Real-time monitoring of average weight, growth, K-factor, and size distribution within the fish population.
- Automated Laksvel protocol for monitoring 13 key welfare parameters, with a severity scale from 0-3.
- Wound detection and classification (small, medium, large) with high-resolution images for evaluation.
- Automated measurement of swimming speed to monitor fish behavior and identify potential issues.
- Web portal provides a unified view of all data, including historical trends and visualizations.
- API access for integration with existing farm management and analysis systems.
- Differentiation between _L. salmonis_ and _C. elongatus_ to meet regulatory reporting requirements.