A UMM Student Utilized Artificial Intelligence to Test the Viability of Oil Palm Pollen

Author : Humas | Monday, January 30, 2023 07:06 WIB

Mohammad Rifqi Nur Faroza, an electrical engineering student of UMM, who designed Artificial Intelligence to test the viability of oil palm pollen. (Foto: Istimewa)

Constantly, the students of the University of Muhammadiyah Malang innovate in various fields. This time, it focused on artificial intelligence (AI) as done by Mohammad Rifqi Nur Faroza, a student of the electrical engineering department. He utilized AI to test the viability of oil palm pollen.

The innovation came from the opportunities he got during his internship at the Research Center of Oil Palm in Medan City through the Independent Learning - Independent Campus program (Translated: Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka). There, Faroza learned things related to oil palm cultivation. On the other hand, he focused on working on Ai Developer to enhance the quality of oil palm there.

Initially, the problem comes from the effectiveness of testing oil palm pollen grains. Faroza and several participants of the Independent Learning - Independent Campus program eventually began to design an application that could push the viability of oil palm pollen. Therefore, the quality and viability of the pollen can be identified.

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The application is Palm Oil Pollen Detector. It works by magnifying a pollen grain through a microscope. Then the grain is detected through an AI-based application. The viability of the detected pollen can mean that it is ripe and ready to pollinate the stigma.

“Previous researchers used a manual way to count the viability of a pollen, and it takes one to two hours to gain its result. However, due to this AI-based innovation, we can accelerate the test process within a few seconds,” said Faroza.

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Faroza admitted that he needed approximately two months during this application creation and tried several times to create this desired artificial intelligence. This innovation naturally benefits the company because it can accelerate oil palm production with excellent quality.

Besides giving an advantage to the company, this AI-based innovation can be a reference for another study. “Hopefully, I can integrate the technology of AI into another field, especially in the agricultural one, so the agricultural system of Indonesia can advance,” ended the Electrical Engineering student. (imh/sep/wil)