HydroNeo FarmOS and IoT Pond Monitoring

HydroNeo is a Thailand-based smart aquaculture company whose founders are shrimp farmers themselves and test their tools in real ponds. It has offices and legal entities in Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia, and addresses the high energy costs, oxygen crashes and poor record keeping that cut margins on small and medium shrimp and fish farms.

The solution combines the Mini Controller Pro IoT unit, which reads dissolved oxygen, temperature and pH and switches aerators automatically, with the FarmOS app for daily operations, team chat, a digital pond logbook, KPI dashboards and per-pond profit and loss. An opt-in HarvestConnect marketplace matches upcoming harvests with buyer demand. More than 500 IoT systems are installed for farms and cooperatives in Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and other markets.

• Mini Controller Pro: IoT unit measuring dissolved oxygen, temperature and pH around the clock.
• Aerator automation: switches aerators on and off based on oxygen thresholds.
• FarmOS app: daily tasks, team chat and a digital pond logbook in one mobile app.
• KPI dashboards: per-pond profit and loss and production indicators.
• HarvestConnect: opt-in marketplace matching upcoming harvests with buyer demand.
• Welfare module: shrimp welfare assessment framework from FAI built into the app.

• Shrimp farms in the Mekong Delta automating aerators to reduce power bills and night-time oxygen losses.
• Feed and aqua-pharma distributors bundling IoT monitoring and FarmOS with their technical service for farmer clients.
• Shrimp cooperatives consolidating pond data and harvest plans to negotiate with processors.

• Cuts aeration energy costs by running aerators according to measured dissolved oxygen; the company reports average savings of about 30%.
• Lowers the risk of overnight oxygen crashes through real-time alerts on the phone.
• Gives owners per-pond profit and loss and KPI visibility instead of paper logbooks.
• Lets farms start for free, since FarmOS is free for up to five ponds.

Shrimp farmers across Southeast Asia face rising electricity prices, disease pressure and thin margins, so energy-efficient aeration and data-driven pond management are becoming basic requirements. Vietnam, one of the largest shrimp producers in the region, has many small and medium farms in the Mekong Delta that still rely on manual water checks.

HydroNeo has offices in Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore, led by CEO Fabian Reusch and co-founder Thanongsak Chongsiri. Its smart farm products debuted in 2020. Backers include Thai Union Group, Rockstart and TK Partners; partners include FAI, LaMotte, GSMA and SPACE-F, and it is recognised by Thailand BOI, depa and NIA. The company runs its own Reef & River farm in Samut Sakhon.