FULL CONTROL FROM THE BRIDGE
Our focus on fish counting and size estimation, means that you’ll have the information you need to facilitate your planning and decision making — no matter where you are on the ship.
Our VAKI® Wellboat Counters — whether our Basic or Smart models — raise the level of automation and deliver increased efficiency in both aquaculture farming and wild fish research, so you can maximize your efficiency for greater quality and operational control.
Explore our full range of Wellboat Counters below, and visit our YouTube channel to see how our wellboat solutions are helping customers across the globe.
The VAKI B-type channel counter is used when it is not required to lead the fish into a pipe after counting. Commonly used on barges when fish are being pumped directly between cages.
The VAKI Y-type channel counter is used on large grading machines when the fish are transported from the grader in a pipe after counting. The pipe diameter can be up to 20″.
The VAKI Smolt Counter is specially designed for integration within the high capacity fish transport systems used on wellboats.
Our VAKI SB counters deliver a range of Channel Counters for counting fish from 50g – 2.5kg.
COUNTED WHILE TREATED FOR SEALICE
Millions and millions of fish are counted every day with VAKI Wellboat Counters.
MAXIMIZED PRODUCTIVITY
Fully electronic control of grading gaps and clear display for all four grading sizes from a touch screen.
HIGH CAPACITY, EVERY TIME
VAKI is proud to provide counters onboard the biggest wellboats in the world.
VAKI COUNTING TECHNOLOGY
Our counters use VAKI computer vision technology originally developed for counting fry, smolts and juvenile fish.
Fish pass over a light source where an imaging line scanning camera is used to grab silhouette image of every single fish. The silhouettes are analysed and used for counting and size estimation.
IMAGE VERIFICATION
The images of the fish are automatically recorded and can be used to validate and check the accuracy of the count. The image file can be given to a customer and / or stored as a permanent record.
The red chart indicates the numbers of fish counted during the entire count and is used to select a time frame for further analyses.
The screen displays images of fish passing the camera for each one second interval. Accuracy can be verified by a manual check of the number of fish images to the count shown on the screen.
ON-DEMAND ACCESS TO DATA & REPORTING
The Macro app provides the user the option to run the counter, view the results and email the count report from a smart phone or tablet.
The automatic count report gives valuable and detailed information on the counting. The report can be supplied to the receiver of fish along with the counting file containing the images of all the fish. The throughput chart shows the rate of fish passing thru the counter. With this information the quality of the count can be assessed by checking for any overload time.
An optional feature to the counting program, the size measurement module, presents average weight and size distribution of the counted fish. In one simple operation complete data, on number and size of fish, is obtained without handling or stress.
ADDING EVEN MORE INTELLIGENCE TO YOUR OPERATIONS
The VAKI Cloud is the online location to store and access all your VAKI Counter Reports, fish images and smart flow grading reports. All VAKI Counters and Graders have the ability to automatically backup the files to VAKI Cloud.
With a secure Log in the VAKI Cloud will also allow access to current operational status and service information for your VAKI equipment in the VAKI Customer Care Program.
The VAKI SmartFlow System gathers information from all devices. This facilitates the optimization of every grading/ counting operation as the various devices can be controlled and fine-tuned electronically in order to result in more precise controlled output.
Explore our VAKI® SmartFlow interactive PDF to learn more about how VAKI can help you improve your aquaculture operations.
LET’S ADVANCE AQUATIC WELFARE & SUSTAINABILITY, TOGETHER.
Contact your MSD Animal Health representative today to learn more about optimising your
production efficiency with the power of VAKI’s aquaculture technology.