Yogyakarta – Man’s need of electricity increases from day to day. The increase should be anticipated in order to avoid bigger demand than supply. Besides, limitation of electric energy use can be done by utilizing technology application which is currently developing. “This has become an inspiration for us to develop and design meter recorder of electric power consumption (KWh meter) based on microcontroller,” said Yusuf Irfani, student of Diploma Program of Electrical Engineering, explaining the innovation in the discussion held by Saintifika Journal at Students Hall on Friday (11/2).
The multi-featured digital KWh meter based on microcontroller is made with several features such as displaying values of electric power consumption, completed with alarm, also indicator of electricity bill reminder. It is completed with some menus such as amount of current bill and last month use, and reset button which functions to reset values of operation. “This KWh meter is also completed with LCD as data displayer which is needed by customers,” he said.
Besides Yusuf, the development of KWh meter was also made by other students from Electrical Engineering Department and Physics Engineering, such as Fadjri Andika Permadi, M. Arif Wicaksono, and Kiki Rahmat Syair.
In the event, there was also a discussion about Temple Humanization: Development Model of Pustakasala Temple Site in UII Integrated Campus Complex which is written by Ari Hendra Lukmana, Qolbiyati Muthmainah, Ghifari Yuristiadhi, and Fahmi Prihantoro. They are students of Archaeology, Architecture and Planning Engineering and History Departments.
Both of the scientific papers had previously entered the finals and became participants of the 23rd National Student Scientific Week in July 2010 in Denpasar, Bali.
Ari Hendra Lukmana in his explanation said that idea of temple humanization at UII started from the conflict of interest between UII and Center for Preservation of Cultural Heritage (BP3). UII had to stop the construction of library project while waiting for certainty from the Center for the construction to continue. Meanwhile, BP3 was hesitant about the permission of temple site utilization in the future by the campus because it is not allowed to establish other buildings up to particular radius. “This debate sparked the idea because indeed it needs fast and appropriate solution for the goodness of UII and BP3,” Ari explained.
Ari added that the idea was brought up to raise new discourse in archaeology about conservation model which is adaptive to current development. The infill design concept and contextualism which can be applied are by mass addition in the form of library above the temple using material that us integrated with the temple.
The part below the building mass is openly made so the temple still gets natural lighting and aeration. The floor of building covering the temple can support the lighting so the temple still looks beautiful in the night. “So, the temple preservation can still be done and new building (library) can have a landmark which has high historical value. This is the concept of design development which is humane and solutional for Pustakasala Temple,” Ari concluded.
Responding to the explanation about two scientific works, Dr.Med.dr. Indwiani Astuti and Hempri Suyatna, S.Sos., M.Si., as discussants, gave positive appreciation even innovative and actual. They expected that the work can be developed in the future. They also suggested that every scientific work avoids plagiarism practices, minimizes sources from Internet and prioritizes the use of books or other scientific journals.