About us

Projekt EDEN

No chemical fertilizers, reduced pesticide use, and up to 97% less water consumption? Aquaponics makes it possible. In our research project, we focus on efficient, decentralized, and sustainable food production in connection with IoT technologies. 

To make it easier for inexperienced operators to get started and practice, IoT technologies are useful. The basic concepts of IoT aspects relevant to circular economy in aquaponics and similar approaches are already well researched. Therefore, we investigate the process optimization of individual systems beyond IoT, through the (digital) integration of multiple participants and the impact of such a distributed approach on established key figures of the circular economy. Among other things, we examine the influence of community building on the degree of circularity of aquaponics systems..

Our goals are …

… Closing material cycles

• EDEN develops circular concepts for valuable materials in individual systems and in the distributed production network of multiple operators.
• EDEN contributes to the efficient use of knowledge, materials, and energy.

… Intensifying product use

• EDEN increases the yield of an aquaponics system through intelligent control.
• EDEN provides a construction manual for an aquaponics system made from recycled materials.

… Optimizing resource use

• EDEN uses intelligent IoT control to reduce energy and raw material use.
• EDEN uses an innovative design and conceives an energy-autonomous system – thus reducing energy and raw material use even further.