Affiliation:
1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Pontianak State Polytechnic, Pontianak, Indonesia
Abstract
Indonesia is an archipelagic country crossed by the equator, surrounded by the ocean, and traversed by many rivers, with a high level of rainfall. One of its islands is West Kalimantan, which has the longest river in Indonesia, the Kapuas River. In addition to the Kapuas River, there are also several tributaries scattered across this island, ensuring a constant water supply in the region. A natural condition surrounded by water, creates an environment with temperature and humidity that is ideal for the habitat of the swiftlets (COLLOCALIA FUCIPHAGA). The swiftlets initially inhabit caves with humidity levels around 80-95% and temperatures between 25-27°C. The nests of these swiftlets contain valuable substances, especially for health and cosmetics purposes, making them highly valuable in the market. Due to their high economic value, many farmers construct artificial houses for swiftlets of various sizes. The main challenge in a swiftlet house is to maintain humidity and temperature conditions close to the ideal habitat. This research aims to create a prototype control and monitoring system based on Mamdani FIS to maintain humidity and temperature inside the swiftlets house close to the ideal conditions, achieved by implementing an effective timing mechanism for humidifier machines and fans. Experiments results of the prototype show that the average humidity produced is 87.06%, and the temperature is 25.19°C. The placement of this prototype within an Artificial house for swiftlets should be movable within certain rooms and positioned according to the swiftlets' needs to ensure that the location is favored by the birds. This prototype can be operated manually and automatically, thus providing flexibility for Swiftlet farmers to control and monitor the Swiftlet’s house condition. This automatic control can be done globally via smartphone devices, so it is also able to provide great convenience for Swiftlets farmers to change and monitor the temperature and humidity.