Huon Aquaculture partners with TasmaNet on smart farming rollout.
Huon Aquaculture, a subsidiary of JBS Foods, has partnered with Comms Group Limited’s Tasmanian telecom and cloud unit TasmaNet to roll out digital infrastructure aimed at improving production efficiency, environmental performance and fish welfare.
The companies said TasmaNet will provide secure connectivity and edge computing across Huon’s marine farms, hatcheries and processing sites. The rollout includes private fixed wireless and SD-WAN links to offshore and rural locations, edge nodes to support AI-driven biomass analysis and automated feeding, and cloud-managed IoT platforms for live monitoring of water quality, oxygen and temperature.
“Our operations span some of the most remote and pristine environments in the world, and we’ve long believed that technology is key to farming more responsibly,” said Charles Von Der Hyde, CEO of Huon Aquaculture. “With TasmaNet’s advanced networking and IoT integration capabilities, we’re now able to gather real-time environmental and fish welfare data, optimise feeding systems, and ultimately farm smarter and more sustainably.”
According to the companies, the systems are intended to enable real-time decision-making, reduce waste and improve feed conversion efficiency.
“We’re proud to help a world-class Tasmanian company like Huon Aqua set new benchmarks in sustainable food production,” said Peter McGrath, CEO Comms Group Limited and Executive Director TasmaNet Pty Ltd. “This partnership shows how local technology can help solve global challenges in ethical food production, environment, and efficiency.”
Comms Group said it acquired TasmaNet in May 2025, adding national reach while maintaining local operations and engineering capability in Tasmania. Financial terms of the Huon deployment were not disclosed.
