By Valentine Oforo , The Guardian
THE State University of Zanzibar (SUZA) is implementing a special training program to impart its students with key practical knowledge on innovation and creativity sectors.
Throughout the program which operates under the tutelage of the high- profile trainers, the involving students are innovating varied technologies, signaling a positive future for the crucial economic sector of Zanzibar.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education and Vocational Training in Zanzibar, Khamis Said told The Guardian in Tanga recently that the focus is to further capacitating the facility in order to become the country’s hub for excellence in innovations and creativity.
"The government in Zanzibar considers technology, innovations and creativity as a key vehicle to help speeding up development pace, and thus we're working to promote the three sectors,” he said.
For instance, he unveiled that through the so far well-established centre for innovation and creativity at the fast-growing state- owned varsity, he said the students have managed to innovate the Smart Poultry Farm, the best innovation which targeting to help the poultry farmers to improve their production and productivity.
"The Smart Poultry Farm innovation integrates IoT and AI technologies to automate essential tasks like water and feed management, temperature regulation, and data collection.
"By providing real-time monitoring and control, it optimizes resource utilization, enhances poultry health, and boosts farm profitability," he said.
Explaining on more successes, he said, the students have innovated the IoT - based vessel tracking system.
He said, through the technology, an IoT device; 'a hiking kit' will be installed in all registered fishing vessels, in which will be detecting any movement made by fishing boats within the ocean.
"This is the best clouds-connected technology which has been innovated by the students to maximise and digitalizing the government's systems towards monitoring the fishing sector and thus, fetching needed profits from the blue economy," he further said.
With the technology, once a fishing vessel enters an area where fishing is not allowed, then the IOT device inside the vessel will react and send data directly to the cloud, where data will be transported from the cloud to the API Gateway.
The API Gateway acts as a crucial intermediary between the IoT devices on the fishing vessels and the backend systems, ensuring seamless and secure communication while also providing additional functionalities such as security, routing, and monitoring, through monitoring devices.
"Monitoring devices will display the overall movement done by fishing vessel through alert and notification system, web map, overall vessel information and its recording through histogram and statistical data," the PS added.
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