The Invention and New Product Exposition (INPEX 2010) held recently in June 2010 awarded UNITEN's lecturer, Dr Rohayu Che Omar the Special Category Award - Best Innovator Cup for her invention entitled "Innovative Monitoring & Maintenance Rating System" (IMRS).
Asked to describe her project, Dr Rohayu said it was the outcome of a team effort. This project focuses on development of mobile PDA application designed especially for onsite data collection to cater needs of quick information transfer system by Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) who owns major part of electrical supply chains in Malaysia. TNB has chains of transmission lines across jungles and ranges, rural town area and major parts of cities in Malaysia. Each year, number of cases including landslides, erosions and structural failure lead to huge lost in money, time and precious forest.
This system will enable a better data handling and processing during regular inspection interval thus optimizing time taken to rate and recommends immediate mitigation steps. With this automation in onsite survey system, recording critical data and alerting maintenance team could be done in real time and with minimal human error factors. This system is also linked to GIS software which enables a broader capability for landslide and factor of safety modelling and assessments of prone area.
Earlier this year, Dr Rohayu was also awarded the Gold Medal at the Taiwan Invention Product Promotion Association (TIPPA) for similar invention.
written by: Mohd Azrul Azri Mat Razali
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