Indonesian
The UB cross-faculty student team, namely Imas Hidayati (Physics), I Putu Arta Yasa (Industrial Engineering), Nur Ma’rifatud Diniyah (Physics), I Made Kamajaya Ariestuta (Information Technology), Dhea Zalfarani Syah Munir Putri (Education Information Technology), won a gold medal in technology category at the 2022 World Youth Invention and Innovation Award (WYIIA).
The competition was held in collaboration between the Faculty of Science and Technology UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta with IYSA (Indonesian Young Scientist Association) from 22 – 26 August 2022.
Attended by 254 teams from 26 countries with hybrid presentation method, the participants came from various universities and high schools from within and outside the country.
Among them include Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Macedonia, Turkey, India, South Africa, Iran, Puerto Rico, Romania, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Mexico, Tunisia, Hong Kong, Brazil, Bulgaria, Serbia, Philippines, and the USA.
Under the supervision of lecture and IT expert Riswan Septriyadi Sianturi, S.Sc., MM., M.Sc., Ph.D. the UB team elaborated their idea and composed a paper entitled “Smart Forest Monitoring Based on Wireless Sensor Network as Anticipation of Fires to Maintain Forest Conservation in Indonesia”.
“It is an innovation in preventing or monitoring the phenomenon of forest fires with smart technology based on a wireless sensor network that is used to detect information on hotspots through sensor nodes,” said team leader Imas Hidayati.
The team stated that the analysis of the design or prototype they made showed better performance than the currently other existing standard forest fire monitoring devices through several key parameters.
Among them are the ability of devices to transmit and receive data, the chances of data loss, the completeness of technological tools, human detection, and forest surveillance.
The technologies or components used in this device system include DHT22 sensors, NodeMCU microcontrollers, user monitoring, MQ135 sensors, and Zigbee transceivers. The function of sensor node to collect temperature, humidity, and gas level data.
The data will then be sent to the coordinator node and forwarded to the gateway node to be displayed on a PC, laptop or even cellphone monitor. The Smart Forest Monitoring innovation is expected to solve problems in conserving forests in Indonesia
