Increasing awareness of the management of accumulated waste inspired a group of Universitas Brawijaya students to make an organic waste processing tool and a monitoring tool for BSF fly cages.

Collaborating with TPST Tumpang Lestari, a tool called ORMnicro, believed can help TPST to process organic waste more efficiently and usefully, where later the results of waste processing can have economic value.

The initiator of the innovation in the organic waste counter machine and BSF fly, cage monitoring system is the Brawijaya Re-Techno Team consisting of Shafina Rifdhayanti Zein, Charis Maulana, Akhdan Zaim, Ridho Firmansyah, and Aulia Angkasa.

Under the guidance of Eka Maulana, S.T., M.T., from the Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Brawijaya (FTUB), the team is confident that the tool can support the development and production of maggot in the Tumpang Lestari TPST more optimally and efficiently.

“Our focus in making this tool is for environmental concern and aims at how we turn waste into goods that have economic value and benefit the surrounding community, especially the Tumpang Lestari TPST,” explained one group member, Charis.

Another group member, Shafina, continued ORMNicro is an organic waste processing system, and BSF fly cage monitoring system integrated with the Internet of Things.

“ORMNicro is also equipped with an organic waste chopper that can adjust the fine or coarse texture of the chopped results,” explained Shafina.

Making filters which are classified into three types, aims to adjust the fine-grained texture of the chopped organic waste as maggot feed and adjust the size of the mouth and the baby maggot feeding system until it becomes an adult maggot.

“Apart from the enumerator, we also equip this organic waste processing system with a spinner which can later reduce the water content in the maggot feed and can produce liquid fertilizer from the used water of the organic waste spinner,” said the Electrical Engineering student.

This combination of choppers and slicers/spinners can undoubtedly be the answer for maggot cultivators at Tumpang Lestari TPST, who have had difficulty adjusting the texture and water content of maggot feed.

The development of the BSF fly cage itself is the creation of a monitoring system for the state of the cage. This can help BSF fly cultivators improve the growth and reproduction of BSF flies through several sensors and actuators installed in BSF fly cages.

The system, which sometimes flies BSF, is already integrated with the Internet of Things, where real-time monitoring data can be accessed via a smartphone.

ORMnicro can be widely commercialized, especially for people who work as maggot cultivators, as well as several 3R TPSTs in Indonesia as an innovative Waste Management System into Goods with economic value.

This innovation won 1st place at PLN ICE, a series of activities in the context of National Electricity Day.

In this event, held from July to October, the Re-Techno Brawijaya team obtained funding to complete the final research and testing stage after competing with 400 inventor teams throughout Indonesia.