"Aquawise wants to offer aquaculture farmers in Southeast Asia a better way to monitor their water quality by using AI and existing satellites - no hardware purchases required. Bangkok-based Aquawise takes satellite images of fish and shrimp farms and feeds them into its physics-based AI model that monitors the water for things like temperature, level of chlorophyl, and oxygen levels."
""Water quality is one of the most important things in aquaculture," Patipond Tiyapunjanit, co-founder and CEO of Aquawise, told TechCrunch. "It's like being a human: You have to breathe. The aquatic life, they are living in the water all the time. If the water quality does not stay at the optimal level, it could cause the stress, it could cause disease outbreak, and a lot of things.""
"Aquawise will be showcasing its tech as part of this year's Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, which runs October 27 to 29 at San Francisco's Moscone West. Nineteen-year-old Tiyapunjanit said that the idea for the company started with a love of shrimp that led to a research project about shrimp larvae. While presenting his project at the 2023 Young Scientist Competition, he met his co-founders, Chanati Jantrachotechatchawan and Kobchai Duangrattanalert, who were advising a rival team."
Aquawise provides a low-cost water-quality monitoring platform for aquaculture farms in Southeast Asia by using satellite imagery and a physics-based AI model. The platform analyzes satellite images of fish and shrimp farms to estimate temperature, chlorophyl levels, oxygen concentration, and other water parameters without requiring on-site hardware. The system delivers continuous monitoring, tracking, and short-term predictions, contrasting with traditional daily or weekly sampling. The company is based in Bangkok and was founded by young researchers who developed the idea during shrimp larvae research and science competitions. The platform aims to reduce disease risk and stress by maintaining optimal water conditions.
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