Because of the idea of an information-spatial technology-based system to support waste processing, Faculty of Animal Science (FAS) students, Muhammad Alfin Huda, won 2nd place in the Future Scientific Competition 2018 in the Scientific Writing Competition (LKTI) on October 5-6 2018. In the competition, Huda collaborated with Septi Mooi Cahyani, a student of the Urban and Regional Planning Department of the Faculty of Engineering UGM and Anisah Bella Istiqomah, a student of the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business UGM. The scientific work they compiled was entitled “SPLITTER (Farmer Waste Management System) Taman Agung Village as Belitang Indpendent Integrated City (KTM) Economic Revitalization Effort”.
“The technology we created is called as SPLITTER (Sistem Pengolahan Limbah Tani Ternak or Livestock Farming Waste Management System), a system that integrates industry from upstream to downstream with the utilization of industrial technology 4.0 as a support for processing the fertilizer industry,” said Huda when being interviewed at the FAS UGM Campus on Monday (15/10).
Huda revealed, he and his team create this technology is because the machine that makes granular organic fertilizer in Taman Agung Village, South Sumatra, has not been used optimally. “This is very unfortunate because the Taman Agung Village is a buffer of the Belitang Integrated Independent City (KTM) which is expected to be the center of the Granula Organic Fertilizer Industry,” said Huda.
The 2015 class student said, the slow development of the IPOG was inversely proportional to the rapid development of the industrial world that had evolved into Industry 4.0. “At this stage, the conventional use of industrial mechanisms is considered irrelevant and tends to touch the virtual world, in the form of ubiquitous human, machine and data connectivity or known as Internet of Things (IoT). SPLITTER is expected to be an application that brings the gap between the condition of IPOG and the current industrial conditions, ” he explained.
According to Huda, SPLITTER is able to accommodate the management of farm waste and livestock from upstream to downstream. This system also supports increasing cooperation between the Taman Agung Village as a hinterland area with the KTM center through a marketing sub-system managed by the Village-Owned Enterprises (BUMDes) KTM.
“SPLITTER is an online and offline application with several features of recording farm database, mapping livestock, and e-commerce services selling granular fertilizer production. This application can be accessed by IPOG managers, members of Gapoktan, and the general public with the distribution of authority to use the features,” explained Huda.
SPLITTER helps to increase the capacity of human resource in the village and KTM with the visualization of simple applications based on information and spatial technology. In addition, the system created by the UGM students is able to bridge the problems of production-consumers who are hampered by road infrastructure.
“With this system, it is expected to improve the economy of the Taman Agung village,” said Huda. (Nadia)