UGM SDGs Center

Day: October 14, 2019

  • OkeSayur Application by UGM Students Goes to Silicon Valley

    OkeSayur application made by students of Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) won a gold medal during the YTECH 2019, Female Founders with Silicon Valley Mindset event. With this victory, the OkeSayur team was entitled to learn about the start-up ecosystem in Silicon Valley, the USA.

    “We also received an incubation program or acceleration and funding from Angel Investors,” said Co-founder of OkeSayur, Nindi Kusuma Ningrum, when contacted on Sunday (13/10) night.

    YTECH 2019 is a digital startup competition to get young talents, especially Indonesian young women who have a sociopreneur spirit to improve social welfare. The competition started from June to October 2019 and has been followed by 65 teams from across the country.

    “Of the 65 teams that applied, a selection was made to get Big 9 and eventually Big 3 for a presentation in front of the juries,” said the Information Technology student.

    In the competition, Nindi and fellow students Nathanael Gavin and Tommy Wahyu Yudialim submitted the OkeSayur app, which is a shopping service app and delivery of food products with the tagline More Than Just Shopping Groceries. Currently, the app has over 1,500 users and more than 2,000 downloads.

    Nindi said the app development started from the concerns that traditional market presence had weakened due to lifestyle changes. The students came up with the idea that can help people to shop for groceries but still sustain traditional markets.

    Various kinds of groceries are offered on the app, which are obtained from traditional markets in Yogyakarta and Klaten. It offers about 150 products such as vegetables, fruit, seafood, meat, herbs, and organic products. Developed at the end of 2017, the app is available to be downloaded at Playstore.

    OkeSayur has features such as catalogue selection, location setting, shipping and payment. People can also make orders through the website okesayur.com and WhatsApp chat. Currently, OkeSayur shopping service has reached consumers in Yogyakarta, Sleman, Bantul, Kulon Progo and Klaten.

    Source: https://ugm.ac.id/id/berita/18573-aplikasi-okesayur-besutan-mahasiswa-ugm-berhasil-melenggang-ke-silicon-valley

     

     

     

     

  • No Hama Won a Medal at the World Invention Technology Expo 2019

    No Hama Won a Medal at the World Invention Technology Expo 2019

    UGM students won a silver medal in the use of renewable energy applications to protect rice fields from rat pests at the World Invention Technology Expo (Wintex). The competition was held in Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, Jakarta from 9-12 October 2019.

    The team consisting of Physics Engineering students, Afif Fachrudin, Agiel Hadid Ridhlo, Muhammad Rifqi Amrullah, and Rania Putri Chaela as well as Electrical Engineering student Salman Rahwidean Janotama. They have developed the innovation, entitled “’No-Hama’ Solar Powered Rat Pest Exterminator as a Solution for Crop Failure in Indonesia”.

    “No Hama is a rat exterminator that is based on solar power. The team developed the renewable energy application utilization to protect rice fields from rats,” said Ahmad Agus Setiawan, S.T, M.Sc, Ph.D, supervising lecturer, on Monday (14/10).

    The Head of the Renewable Energy Lab encouraged the students to innovate and apply a renewable energy technology for the society and humanity. The development of No-Hama, he said, started with the problems facing farmers, particularly in Lamongan regency, East Java, when rat infestation had destroyed 608.95 hectares of rice fields in 19 districts.

    “The local farmers were forced to use electricity from a generator to protect the rice fields. But this was actually very dangerous in addition to the high costs,” he said.

    Ahmad said the use of renewable energy application for agriculture was to support a mission in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), namely hunger eradication. He hoped that this achievement will be the start of the development of further innovations that can provide solutions to various problems in Indonesia.

    “We’re proud to have earned the medal. It drives us to develop the innovation further in the future that can be applied and solve crop failures in Indonesia,” said Ahmad.

    As previously reported, five other teams from UGM have earned medals in the event. Four teams won gold medals with the works of “IoTanam” (Smart Urban Farming), “Meet Pharmy” (pharmacy game), “Utilization of Waste of Sugar Palm as Acoustic Panel to Prevent Environmental Damage”, and “Plastcom-Crete” (a solution to transform plastic waste into composite concrete). Another team won a silver medal with their project “ArgoAgro” (an application for chain supply media in agriculture).

    Source: https://ugm.ac.id/id/berita/18578-no-hama-raih-medali-di-world-invention-technology-expo

     

     

     

  • UGM Earns 6 Medals from World Innovation Technology Expo 2019

    UGM Earns 6 Medals from World Innovation Technology Expo 2019

    UGM students brought home six medals from the 2nd World Innovation Technology Expo (WINTEX) 2019 event held by Indonesian Invention and Innovation Promotion Association (INNOPA), from 9-12 October 2019 in Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII). As many as 1,100 innovators from 18 countries joined the event.

    Ahmad Zaini Pratama, one of the awardees of the gold medal said on Monday (14/10) that he and his fellow students Haris Hendrik, Andika Prima Sandi, Aisya Fitri Abdillah and Al Syahril earned the medal for their IoTanam: Smart Urban Farming platform. IoTanam is integrated as a precision agricultural technology equipped with Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to control and recommend the prevention of hydroponic and agroforestry-based plant diseases in real time.

    Ahmad said they developed IoTanam following the concerns that extensive land clearance had caused deforestation in addition to the lack of agricultural lands. The platform has been developed with features such as mentors, water flow control and plant nutrition, recommendation systems, and automatic water and nutrition filling. IoT has been installed to control and monitor temperature, humidity, water supply, and water level in the tank. Meanwhile, Artificial Intelligence is to detect plant disease types and recommend for the prevention of diseases.

    “With IoTanam, we can monitor agroforestry activities remotely and regulate water supply and humidity as well as soil acidity level automatically, even when we are out of town,” he explained.

    Another gold winner is Meet Pharmy application that has been developed by Muhammad Sulhan Hasi, GP. Wahyunanda Crista Yuda, Muhammad Fikri Abdillah, Dewa Nyoman Dharma Triyasa, and Erlita Puspa Kiananti. Meet Pharmy is a game application to introduce the pharmacist profession to children. The children are also introduced to pharmaceuticals so that they won’t be afraid of taking medicines.

    The next gold medal has been awarded to Ardhi Kamal Haq, Said Ahmad, and Pamela Chanifah Zahro with their innovation entitled Utilization of Waste of Sugar Palm (Arenga pinnata) as an Acoustic Panel to Prevent Environmental Damage. They used the waste of sugar palm powder to turn it into acoustic panels.

    The last gold medal went to Putra Makmur B., Stephanus Satria Wira Waskitha, Vidiskiu Fortino Kurniawan, Nicolaus Elka Yudhatama, and Reza Yustika Bayuardi, who innovated Plastcom-Crete: A Novel Solution to Transform Plastic Waste into Composite Concrete. This innovation offered a new solution to waste management, particularly plastic waste, which is turned into composite concrete.

    A silver medal went to Raden Roro Intan Dwi Nuraini, Trika Yuliana, and Mukhamad Burhanudin who developed the ArgoAgro innovation. ArgoAgro is a webgis application used for an efficient chain supply media for agricultural commodities. It has been implemented in Madiun, East Java.

    Lastly, a silver medal was awarded to Afif Fachrudin, Agiel Hadid Ridlo, Muhammad Rifqi Amrullah, Rania Putri Chaela, and Salman Rahwidean Janotama with their NoHama innovation. NoHama is a rat exterminator that uses solar power to resolve crop failure problems due to rat infestation.

    Source: https://www.ugm.ac.id/id/berita/18577-ugm-borong-6-medali-dari-ajang-internasional-wintex-2019