ITS Vocational Faculty students won the championship through the idea of a Brantas river water monitoring system.

ITS Vocational Faculty students won the championship through the idea of a Brantas river water monitoring system.

The CT-Reese Garvi Team from the ITS Civil Infrastructure Engineering Department won third place in the 2022 Indonesian Water Building Competition organized by Brawijaya University Malang.

ITS Campus, VOKASI News – In the current era, technology is developing very fast in various fields so that it brought 3 (three) students from the Department of Civil Infrastructure Engineering (DTIS) of the Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) to initiate an innovation in the field of infrastructure and resource technology water through the Brantas River Water Quality Monitoring System based on the Internet of Things (IoT).

The CT-Reese Garvi team consisting of Rahma Dwi Nur Andini, Shella Anika Andamari, and Lina Rahmawati created an innovative water quality monitoring system for the Brantas River. Shella Anika Andamari as the team leader explained that the innovation originated from anxiety regarding the condition of the Brantas River which was filled with waste in the river.

Shella said, from the location of the case study conducted from the Karang Pilang Bridge to the Jagir Water Gate, it was found that industrial waste and household waste were often disposed of directly into the river. This has an impact on decreasing the quality of the Brantas River water, namely the condition of the water that is not suitable for daily needs. “Thus, we initiated innovation by utilizing sensors in real time to monitor river water quality,” he added.

Team CT Reese Gavin ITS when presenting the innovation of the Internet of Things (IoT) based Water Quality System in the form of 3D mockups in the 2022 KBAI series of events.

The Civil Infrastructure Engineering Department student explained that there are two work schemes in the monitoring system. The first scheme is placing sensors on the river bodies around the Karang Pilang Bridge and the Jagir Watergate. The sensor will read the river water quality according to predetermined parameters including pH, water turbidity, salt content, and temperature.

The second scheme is an early warning system which is a continuation of the initial scheme. When the water quality exceeds the quality standard, an early warning will be reported to relevant stakeholders such as the Environmental Service (DLH) and Jasa Tirta 1 Company. “Later they will monitor and control water quality along the Karang Pilang Bridge to the Jagir Water Gate,” he explained.

The three-dimensional (3D) design display of parameter measuring sensors to determine the quality of the Brantas River water was initiated by the ITS CT-Reese Garvi Team

In monitoring the results of water quality monitoring, Shella and the team initiated two channels of information, namely for river management companies and the general public. Complete data and history of monitoring results can only be accessed through an application by river managers such as Jasa Tirta. Meanwhile, the public can also see the results of water quality monitoring in real time via a screen provided from the location of the sensor placed.

Under the guidance of the ITS Civil Infrastructure Engineering Department lecturer, Mr. Ir. Ismail Sa’ud MMT, this team finally won third place in the 2022 Indonesian Water Building Competition (KBAI), last Sunday (27/11), at Universitas Brawijaya. The girl from Lamongan said that although it was just an idea, it was hoped that her team’s innovation could be realized so that it would be able to help clean water management in maintaining water quality.