NTT Docomo Inc. will launch a service in September, available via smartphones, to provide aquaculture operators with sea data, including water temperatures, collected with the use of special buoys equipped with information and communications technologies . Since March 2016, the major mobile phone carrier has been conducting tests for the service by placing ICT buoys at seaweed and oyster farms in various municipalities, including Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, which was hit hard by the tsunami triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011.
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