Realizing the importance of early exposure to the youngster, SEGRA had invited Mr Nor Azhar Ahmad from Faculty of Computing, Universiti Malaysia Pahang for in house training. This one-day program touched a knowledge on microcontroller understanding, which plays a big part in IoT product or innovation.

This program starts with the evaluation of SEGRA innovation product, previously grabbed the Silver Medal Award in iCE-CInno 2019 at UMP, last September. They compete for an e-Health innovation using the Arduino microcontroller board and several health-related sensors. 

SEGRA Innovation Advisor, Mdm Che Siti Asmah Norsusilawati Che Ahmad said, most of school teacher lack of IoT knowledge. This contributes to the misunderstanding of similar innovation. Besides, Reka Bentuk dan Teknologi (RBT) teacher, Mdm. Iylia Ahmad quote, most of Kuantan district secondary school, had opted to adopt Arduino microcontroller as RBT learning aid, due to low cost and easy to learn. However, this learning aid stuck as a standalone product. Most teachers tend to use them as an introduction to the microcontroller without focusing on IR4.0 initiatives.
The program continued with brainstorming and discussion on how to enhance SEGRA innovation with artificial intelligence and mobile application technology. In the beginning, the device only capable of reading from the sensors and showing the values had evolved into an intelligence device by embedding with diagnostic and recommendation abilities.

This programs attended by SEGRA Form 2 and 3 students, who took RBT subjects, and have a deep interest in IoT innovation.

In conjunction with this program, a maker space workshop to Kuantan teacher’s is planned. It will be focusing on innovation of IoT with microcontroller, sensors and actuator.