Enterprise & Industrial Information System (EIIS) Industrial Engineering Semester 7 Student Class Bandung IoT Trip
16-17 November 2022
Tangerang, 17 November 2022, From Wednesday, 16 November to Thursday, 17 November 2022, seven Industrial Engineering Semester 7 (IE2019) students had a 2-day and 1-night Internet of Things (IoT) Trip to Bandung (both inner city of Bandung & sub-urban regency at Soreang Village). The IoT trip was conducted with Pak Gunawan Zuardi (lecturer of the EIIS subject) with two SGU graduates from MT2013 (Egi) and MT2014 (Alfian).
The trip where visited, was the IoT Project in Agriculture & Horticulture sector where Pak Gunawan Z works in this company, Inovasi Telematika Nusantara (ITN). Concurrently, the development of IoT devices with Abah Odeng (the farmer that worked with Pak Gunawan) at the Soreang Village, Bandung Regency, circa 2020. The IoT focus on tomatoes (Lycopersicum esculentum L.) and their growth progression as the main product of the plantations. Following tomatoes, other recent agriculture products in this program are paddies, chilis, and cucumbers.
There are also future agriculture outputs to be harvested using IOT technology, for instance, melon. We also visited the IoT workshop base of Pak Gunawan Zuard at Bandung inner city at Simpang Pahlawan residence to learn about IoT primary components for agriculture objectives. Those six main components are MCB, Power Supply, Raspberry Pi, Relay, RS-485, and Sensors. The sensors, especially soil sensor, is key to agriculture’s harvest success, such as pH scale, NPK soil & compound concentrations inside (Nitrogen Potassium and Kalium), Humidity rate, Temperature, system control, and Sun Lux.
During stay at Bandung, they learn every prominent detail about the Internet of Things (IoT) important task/role in improving every aspect of the agriculture industry and sector. Because Indonesia is still dependent on agriculture presently and for Indonesia’s economic’ continuity and sustainability, especially on the Island of Java and regarding the national food reserve. The student also learns basic knowledge about agriculture from biology, geography, economics & cost estimation, psychology & sociology, and chemistry perspectives to acknowledge deeper information regarding the agriculture industry that can relate to and interconnected us as Industrial Engineering students.
The lecturing session on agriculture was conducted both at night and the morning to noon by both Pak Gunawan and Abah Odeng, with a PPT presentation and oral. Then also observed and witnessed by the student how the IoT devices simulation works at the tomato plantation there in real-time that able to be controlled by using any smart device (tablet, smartphone, etc.).
The activities both days at Soreang village, where students circumnavigate the village, from the tomatoes plantation with and without IoT that both Pak Gunawan and Abah Odeng shows us, where the ones with IoT are on their last harvest period and better results compared to those without IoT.
After that, students also visit the surrounding nature and inhabitants of Soreang, that’s a stark difference from Bandung’s downtown, a stop at a stall on the hill for snacks, learning and enjoying the village culture and cuisine, as well as meeting new connections while were there, such as Henry, an intern of Pak Gunawan’s company. Before departed from Soreang Village, the students had our third quiz with a topic the Internet of Things (IoT), and understanding regarding it and had lunch there. (PAS/IE2019)
Contributor: Pascal Anargya Sulistyo
