SK Telecom is using the Internet of Things to… farm eels

That unagi you scarf down at your local sushi restaurant may soon have a link to the internet of things. SK Telecom is working with eel farmers in its native South Korea to develop a system of wirelessly connected water sensors that can be monitored and managed from a smartphone. The first pilot of the IoT aquaculture management system is being tested on an eel farm in Gochang, South Korea this month. A set of sensors in dozens of 20-foot-wide eel tanks wirelessly transmit data on water temperature, pH and dissolved oxygen levels to a sensor hub (in fact, the system probably works similarly to your smart home), which in turn connects to SK Telecom’s LTE network using a machine-to-machine radio. That data is sent to Mobius, a cloud platform developed by SK Telecom for consumer and industrial internet of things apps. Mobius then routes that data to an aquaculture management server for analysis and to a smartphone app where the eel farmer can monitor the sensors in real time.