One of the causes of our fishermen entered the sea area
neighboring countries is the lack of information boundaries. At sea, it is
difficult to determine the borders between countries, accurately, because the
boundary is an imaginary virtual alias. As a result, many cases of border
violations by the fisherman.
I Made Sapta Hadi (Sapta), student at the Department of Geodesy Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) find the idea of making yahg device capable of giving a warning if the ship is near the border line. Sapta idea is the fishermen need to be equipped with a device that can give 'warning' to a potential violation of the maritime boundary.
To realize the idea, Sapta invite Bagas Lail Ramadan of the Department of Geodesy and Imaddudin A Majid of the Electrical Engineering Department. Three work since August and was completed in November 2015 under the guidance I Made Andi Arsana, Lecturer Department of Geodesy UGM.
Device findings of the three students named Swates. In the Java language means suwanten Wates, which means the sound of the border. The main components consist of Swates alarms and global positioning system (GPS). Sapta cs using the C programming language for integrating GPS and alarm.
Information from GPS coordinates are read and processed by the program, the output is supplied to the alarm. In practical terms, for example, the alarm will sound at a particular position before passing maritime boundary. Users can set its own offset, ie a certain distance of the border line. The maritime boundary information (as baseline) using the coordinates of the maritime boundary corresponding official document border treaty with neighboring Indonesia.
Because it uses GPS, Swates can be used in all areas, particularly at sea. Connection with the GPS satellite signal is always nice for not hindered by material objects, such as trees and buildings. Swates has dimensions of 15 x 15 x 8 centimeters, making it easy to carry. For resources, simply using an adapter or battery. Swates the manufacturing cost is still relatively high, around 500 thousand rupiah. However, according to Seven, the cost can still be suppressed if mass produced. Sapta optimistic affordable selling price can Swates fishermen.
Thanks to keorisinal ideas and usefulness, Swates won the National Contest of Innovative Geospatial 2015 at the Faculty of Engineering in November 2015 ago.
Sapta mentors and friends and a professor of Department of Geodesy UGM, Dr. I Made Andi Arsana, very impressed and proud of the work of their students.
"The strength of this study was on the originality of ideas that are applicable to the use of the approaches and principles of science and technology base that is quite simple," said the man who is also an observer border and maritime UGM
According to Made Andi, through innovation and original ideas, the use of simple technology that can provide real benefits, especially for fishermen to avoid the violation of the maritime boundary. Even so, that still prototypes Swates is certainly still need improvement in some parts, especially in the packaging. In addition, there needs to be a product design process to produce products that comply with the rules of production and remain appropriate.
Actually, now have a lot of GPS devices or smart phones with features based positioning satellites that can be used to determine boundaries. However, the price of these devices is quite expensive for the fishermen. Finally, traditional fishermen rely solely on traditional astronomical knowledge, namely the low accuracy star tracking.
"In addition to support devices such as Swates, the role of maritime security forces are still needed to help fishermen understand boundaries. Basic knowledge of maritime law, the sovereignty and the sovereign rights should be given to the fishermen, "he concluded. (JMOL)
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