ITS Massive team won the first prize in the Perbanas Entrepreneur Award 2020

ITS Campus, ITS News – Fisherman in Indonesia facing many problems, encouraging three students of Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) to create new technology. Through this Massive technology, the trio creates fish-location detection tools called fishfinder with the ability to show conditions in water in real-time.

The three students were Muhammad Azimt, Dista Rizky Dwi Yanti, and Alfi Rahmawati. Through this innovation, the three students are trying to help optimize the fish caught in the sea while placing the safety of each fisherman.

Muhammad Azimt as the leader of the team revealed the creation of Massive is based on the problem of fishermen who never ended in looking for fish in the Indonesian ocean. “According to the fishermen, the fish caught erratic, hard to predict,” explained the students of Ocean Engineering who familiarly called the Azimt.

Finally, the idea of making a fish detection tool through these maritime business tools called Massive.
According to Dista Rizky Dwi Yanti, one of the team members, this tool is not like other fish-detecting tools that are expensive. The tools can be used by any fishermen because the price is reachable, so local fish market consumption can increase.

He said a most existing fish finder is still used in large, foreign-made ships. But this tool is present as an alternative for fishermen groups. Despite the alternatives, the function is used to find fish in the depths of the sea. “The difference is, our tool can not reach the sea trench like a foreign-made fish detector,” said this student from the Department of Bussines Management.

The prototype of the Fish Detection Tool Massive made by the students

For how this tool works, continued Dista, it has two parts that one is placed on the ship and the other is placed in the ocean. Later this tool detects the location of the fish based on water and winds current speeds. “Tthe sensors will work, fishermen live monitor on the ship,” said her.

For the manufacture of this tool, according to Azimt, using programming software methods. “We only use Arduino ideas (software to create, edit, validate the program code, and upload to the Arduino board in the form of an editor text, red),” he explained. So that the sensor data to be collected into the fishermen will be relevant to the circumstances under the sea.

The tool, too, is equipped with several components such as anemometer to detect the speed of the wind, sonar to detect the presence of fish, and radiofrequency module (Xbee) as a medium transfer data from the sensor to the monitor. “Without using cables anymore, but still need a signal,” Azimt added.

In making this tool, he said, many twists and are happening. Starting from hard to find human resources (SDM) who are experts in this field until the test process of the sensor product in the water off. Besides, it is also constrained in raw materials. “The price of raw material equipment is relatively expensive,” he admitted.

It is said that Azimt, currently the tool is still in the experiment and study again, because it still requires improvement and evaluation in terms of packaging. “I hope the tools that we made for eight months can be developed and useful, especially for groups of local fishermen,” said Azimt who managed to bring the team won first place in the Perbanas Entrepreneur Award. (bob/rev/ITS Public  Relations)