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| UMM food technology student team operating smart farming technology based on IoT agriculture on a portable coffee solar dryer in Harjokuncaran Village, Malang (Photo: Special) |
The academic community of the University of Muhammadiyah Malang (UMM) always makes new innovations and provides advantages to the country. It has been conducted by a team of UMM food technology study program students who run smart farming technology based on IoT agriculture on a portable coffee solar dryer in Harjokuncaran Village, Malang, last September. As a result, they passed the capacity-building program for student organizations (Ormawa) organized by Kementruan Pendidikan, Kebudayaan, Riset, dan Teknologi (Kemendikbudristek) RI.
As for the implementation, they collaborated with UMM mechanical engineering and informatics students. The team leader, Aisyah Fatma Salsabila, explained that this program brought the concept of smart farming based on the Internet of Things (IoT) to improve the post-harvest quality of coffee in Harjokuncaran Village, a village in Malang that has great potential in coffee farming. The initiative aims to provide modern solutions to farmers in the village in optimizing the coffee drying process using portable solar dryer technology.
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In this program, the UMM Food Technology Student Association team integrated IoT technology into coffee processing systems, especially during the drying stage. The portable solar dryer developed is equipped with a sensor that can detect air temperature and humidity, then send the data in real-time to the farmer through a cellphone device.
“With this technology, farmers can know the weather conditions and drying rate of their coffee without having to monitor it manually. If there is any change in temperature that is not quite right, they can immediately adjust it, ensuring the quality of the coffee produced,” Aisyah explained.
Aisyah also added that this activity is in alignment with the development of the Society 5.0 era. Where technology is not only used to facilitate human life but also to improve the welfare of society in general. “We want to help coffee farmers in Harjokuncaran Village to face the challenges of this digital era,” she said.
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He and his team also hope that the implementation of smart farming technology can become a model that is applied in other areas that have similar potential. Moreover, the program is considered successful and makes it easier for coffee farmers. With full support from the university and the Ministry of Education and Culture, the UMM student team is confident that their service program will have a positive impact on coffee farmers and contribute to the development of agricultural technology in Indonesia. (*/wil/put)
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