Community Service in Pati
Indonesia, as a maritime country with the most salt income in the world, presumably needs a review of whether the procedures for data collection and sales of salt already use technology-based media, given the development of computer technology and the internet is currently snowballing. The technology has many positive benefits, one of which is as a communication tool and the delivery of information quickly and massively. The element of the community that should have used the technology for information and communication media is the government apparatus and salt SME owners, including salt farmers. That can support SME activities in increasing production, especially concerning data collection that is complete, neat and structured, so that it can be used as a reference for predicting production values or improving production quality through smart and accessible data visualization. Thus, presumably recording data on the production process of an SME can be planned, monitored (known to the needs and expenditure of the budget), and disseminated online to the public. One of the villages in Pati Regency, which has salt SME desires to do the data collection process in a shorter, structured, and recorded way into the computer. That is due to the use of internet and computer technology being essential points in the application of simplification, including as a medium of information and communication about salt production both to the village government and to the general public.
The School of Computing, which has competence about the algorithm, provides community service in the form of making web-based applications using Artificial Intelligence algorithms related to the mapping of salt production data in collaboration with representatives of Salt SME in Pati, UD. Fair Prosperous. Hopefully, the application can be used as a pilot project for information and communication media for Pati village. This community service activity was carried out in 6 months with the peak of events at the time of the socialization of the use of web-based applications. The socialization on the data collection and sale of web-based salt was carried out on November 16-17, 2019, with the title “Web-Based Application Using Artificial Intelligence Algorithms in Monitoring Salt Production,” which was attended by salt farmers in Kepoh Village, Wedarijaksa District, Pati Regency. By representatives of the Association of Salt Associations in Pati or what is called APROGAKOF. Also, the community service activities were conveyed about the AUDIT preparation process for labeling SNI for salt production from related SMEs, which can be filled out in the recapitulation through the web that has been made. So that salt farmers can fill in the readiness of the production equipment, which will be measured periodically by the Department of Industry and Trade. At the end of the presentation session, the application was explained about the predictions made by responding to the trend of salt production and sales data based on data that was entered entirely and systematically. With the dashboard on the main page of this website, salt farmers are expected to be able to estimate the need for consumption and production of salt availability, especially for salt SMEs in Pati.
