BANDUNG, Telkom University – Two Teams of Telkom University are succeeded in creating innovative products and won 1st and 2nd place in the IEEE YESIST 12 (Youth Endeavors For Social Innovation Using Sustainable Technology) event which took place in August 2021.
IEEE YESIST 12 is an international talent show event for students and young professionals to showcase innovative ideas to solve humanitarian and social problems around the environment.
In this competition, YESIST12 acts as a platform to bridge the gap between engineers and visionaries to contribute to society through innovation.
This competition takes place in two stages, where the first stage is a selection carried out in Asian and African countries. Teams that pass the first stage of selection will enter the next stage where at this stage the participants will compete globally to express their ideas and innovations to overcome humanitarian and social problems such as poverty, hunger, and so on.
There are five categories contested in this event, namely: Innovation Challenge, Junior Einstein, Maker Fair, WePOWER, and Special Track.
In this competition, two Telkom University teams won 1st and 2nd place for the Innovation Challenge category. The team that won first place was the Dandelions Team with members Toifatul Ngulum, Citra Pangestu, Efwandha Yudhono, and Niesya Yulianny. Then the HealthConnect Team consisting of Rofi Rezkin, I Gede Megantara, Johan Eric Dwi Saputro, Elvina Hasriya Putri won second place. These two teams are from the Faculty of Applied Sciences at Telkom University.
The Dandelions team who won 1st place had the opportunity to enter the international stage, where their work will be presented at the international level and the results will be announced in October 2021.
Niesya said that the Dandelions team created an application called “Si TingTing (The Stunting Prevention System is Important)”, an educational application to increase the knowledge of mothers and mothers-to-be for stunting prevention.
“Through this application, we want to provide innovation to the community to help overcome the stunting problem in Indonesia. In addition, through this application, we want to improve the quality of human resources in Indonesia, by providing education about the importance of nutritional quality that must be met by children, especially children under 2 years old.”
The preparations made by Neisya and the team were by direct observation of public knowledge about stunting, and it took up to 2 weeks.
“The obstacle we feel is related to the current pandemic condition, which requires us to limit direct communication with other people, but we are looking for a solution to this problem, namely by surveying a form that we send to the public to validate existing problems as well as validate the solutions we provide.”
Niesya hopes that the application developed by her team can be used not only in Indonesia but also globally.
“This stunting issue is not only a national issue but has become a global problem, and we hope that this application can be useful for the community so that it can reduce stunting rates in Indonesia and the world,” She said.
In the Innovation challenge category, there are six themes, namely: Uplifting societal standards, Disaster Prediction, and Risk Management, Special Needs and healthcare, Women and children Safety, Natural Resource management and protection, and Geographical and space science.
The HealthConnect team represented by Rofi Rezkin explained that his team made an innovation in the health sector, where his team made a medical check-up tool that was integrated with the application.
“This tool can be used in hospitals, posyandu, puskesmas and even at home. Because this tool is portable, it can work as long as there is an internet network. The results of the tool can be consulted directly with doctors who can also use the application, so doctors can diagnose faster.”
Rofi said that this tool was created because he saw the current problem, where the pandemic situation caused health services such as hospitals to be full, so this innovation was made to help with this problem.
“We prepared this tool for approximately five months because we immediately made a medical check-up tool and made a comparison with the sensor equipment produced by the manufacturer so that the quality is the same. In addition, we also have to design the application system, so that the calibration process and application design take quite a long time.”