From flood detection to an autonomous response prototype.
The projects trace how one real Indonesian problem kept returning through different stages of my engineering education, each time with a more ambitious system response.
1stI2-Tech IoT & Data Analytics
ROLE
Embedded systems designer and team contributor
WHEN
2023–2026
WITH
Student engineering teams
This work connects two generations of prototypes around a problem that is immediate in Indonesia: flooding. The first project used sensing and data logic and won first place in the I2-Tech IoT and Data Analytics Challenge in 2023.
I later returned to the problem in an Instrumentation and Measurement project, extending detection toward response through a water-level monitor, clear indicators, and a servo-driven boat prototype.
I developed sensor-based monitoring logic and later extended the idea in a group project combining water-level detection, indicators, and servo-controlled movement.
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THE PROCESS01 02 03
How I moved through the work.
Sense
Translate changing water conditions into stable measurements that an embedded controller can interpret.
Communicate
Turn raw readings into understandable warning states instead of expecting users to interpret sensor values.
Act
Explore how actuation could move the system from passive monitoring toward a physical response.
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KEY DECISIONS
The choices that shaped the result.
- Treat detection as one layer of a response system
- Use simple, inspectable control logic suited to a prototype
- Design indicators for people under time pressure
- Carry one problem forward across different courses instead of abandoning it after a competition
WHAT IT DELIVERED
Won 1st place at the I2-Tech Olympiad
Connected sensing, embedded logic, and actuation
Revisited one problem across multiple generations of prototypes
MY SCOPE
Circuit design
Embedded logic
Sensor integration
Testing
The prototype is not a finished rescue product, and I do not present it as one. Its value is in showing how my thinking evolved from sensing an event to asking what a system should do next.