Inspired by the manual shrimp sorting process, Semarang State Polytechnic (Polines) students innovated by developing Konebi, namely a sorting conveyor and a shrimp production counter based on artificial intelligence and internet of things (IoT).
Konebi was developed by the Godblees Team which consists of students across majors at Polines, namely the Department of Production and Maintenance Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Informatics Engineering. Konebi's innovation won third place nationally at the National Polytechnic Informatics Student Competition held at the Surabaya State Electronics Polytechnic (PENS) some time ago.
Mirda Andrianto Wijaya, one of the students involved in Konebi's development, said that the Konebi idea was motivated by the process of selecting shrimp which was still done manually by shrimp farmers.
"Because it's still manual, the work becomes inefficient and there are lots of mistakes," said Mirda, who is a student of Production and Maintenance Mechanical Engineering.
The use of Konebi is very helpful in sorting harvested shrimp directly. This machine is even designed to be able to group harvested shrimp into three types of sizes, namely small, medium and large where these types of sizes can be adjusted according to needs.
"So, after sorting, the shrimp can also be immediately grouped and packaged according to the desired sizes," said Mirda.
This tool consists of a conveyor unit equipped with a sorting system and an application system that can perform monitoring data real time related to the weight and number of shrimp of each type and camera stream. This application system can also display the condition of conveyor systems and utilities, such as pumps as well Conveyor on/off buttons.
"So, the way it works is that these shrimp enter the conveyor system which will then pass through the sensor system to determine the specific gravity of the shrimp. Then the shrimp will be grouped based on the specific gravity of the shrimp and then the shrimp can be packaged according to that size," said Mirda.
In the future, this tool will be developed with the system mobile. Thus, this Konebi can be used to support shrimp farmers during post-harvest activities.
"So it can be rented out and used interchangeably, especially if the harvest season doesn't coincide," Mirda added.
With the use of this tool, the shrimp sorting process becomes more effective and efficient.
"Smallholders become more prosperous," said Mirda. (Nan/Cecep)
source : vocational.kemdikbud.go.id