SIC Students Create Innovations, From Smart Aquariums To Sophisticated Eye Glasses Equipped With Sensors

Students from the DA Team group, SMK Al Huda, Kediri City, East Java, showed Glasstic innovation in the Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC) Batch 3 2021/2022 program (photo: Antara).

JAKARTA - The students of the Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC) Batch 3 – 2021/2022 have created various innovations ranging from smart aquariums to sophisticated eye glasses equipped with sensors to help direct the path of the blind.

Ardika Purna, a student of SMK Muhammadiyah 7 Gondanglegi Malang and his group designed an IoT smart aquarium product called AQUAThings, designed to make it easier to control ornamental fish aquariums via smartphones.

As quoted from Antara, Monday, this solution relies on three main features, namely IoT for regulating water PH levels, IoT feeder fish, and IoT aquarium lighting.

Ardika said, the materials taught at the bootcamp were aimed at increasing understanding of the concepts of design thinking, innovation, critical thinking, program validation, creating solution ideas, python courses, and IoT courses, which are interrelated in working on IoT products.

According to him, there were quite a number of challenges that they had to face in that phase, such as using a completely new programming language from what they had learned, then composing and assembling IoT device components consisting of sensors, and hardware engineering problems.

"Because our products are related to water, we have often experienced short circuits during assembly because the sensors are in the water, causing losses," said Ardika, who aspires to be a hardware engineer.

Meanwhile, Daffa Eka Sujianto, a student from Al Huda Vocational School, Kediri City, East Java, and his team designed an IoT project in the form of eye glasses equipped with ultrasonic sensors, GPS, cameras, and speakers that can give turn orders to blind people based on data from sensors.

The glasses were created to help the blind to move more easily.

To increase student capacity in the field of Internet of Things (IoT) development, Samsung held the Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC) Batch 3 – 2021/2022 which entered the third phase, namely the IoT Product Development Bootcamp.

IoT technology is experiencing rapid growth in Indonesia. According to data from the Ministry of Communication and Informatics[1] in 2022, there will be 400 million IoT devices in Indonesia and there will be 678 million devices in 2025 driven by 5G technology. The World Economic Forum report[2] titled The Future of Jobs Report 2020 states that as many as nine percent of companies in 2025 have utilized IoT technology.

To anticipate this, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology and the Ministry of Education and Culture [3] then encourage the capacity building of high school and vocational education in the use of ICT which focuses on IoT technology, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Video Based Learning, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality.

"We hope that the experience and skills they gain at SIC will be useful for their future," said Ennita Pramono, Head of Corporate Citizenship at Samsung Electronics Indonesia.

At this bootcamp stage, students are taught several materials; Foundation & Hardware (IoT), Networking & Communication Basics (Raspberry Pi), Software & Platforms (MongoDB, PyMongo, UBIDOTS).

Sage IoT Product Development Bootcamp at SIC Batch 3 – 2021/2022 was held in June-September 2022 and was attended by 100 students (25 teams) from 6 MAN (8 teams) and 10 SMK (17 teams) from various regions in Indonesia.