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A Sign Language tutorial application to be develop by UTM PhD student

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JOHOR BAHRU, 14 January 2018 – A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) student from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) will develop the application about teaching the normal man to communicate using sign language.
The application called Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia on Augmented Reality

Ruzimi developing the BIMonAR application at his home. When fully developed, the BIMonAR application will be the first application in Malaysia which provides complete tuturial about sign language.

or BIMonAR was planned to be develop to assists the normal people in learning the sign language to communicate more effectively with the hearing impaired Malaysians.

Being born without left hand and both legs, Ruzimi Mohamed @ Mahmood, 32, was motivated to develop this application after knowing that no education system specifically designed for this kind of disabilities.

“In Malaysia, apart from the Special Education School (goverment school that specially made for disable children) there are no other option of education system to train normal people to communicate using the sign language.

“As a result of their ‘unique’ language that are unable to be spoken by normal people, this deaf group were being left behind in various opportunities such as pursuing tertiary education and employment sector especially the Malaysian public service,” he said.

According to Ruzimi, the number of disabled persons (OKU) on deaf category who are registered with the Malaysian Social Welfare Department (JKM) is up to 60,000 but the normal people who are skilled in using sign language less than 20 people.

“This is a very sad fact because with a total of 60,000 deaf people registered throughout Malaysia, we should have at least 5 to 6 thousand normal people who are skilled in communicating with sign language,” he said.

Speaking about the development of BIMonAR’s application, Ruzimi said that he would be willing to devote all his efforts to complete this application in the targeted timeframe.

“I am targeting the end of 2018 as a target for this app to be completed and then introduced to the public,” he said.
The idea of creating this BIMonAR application has led to Ruzimi’s success when winning RM500, 000.00 as a business grant through the Skim Permulaan Usahawan Bumiputera (SUPERB) programme organized by Unit Peneraju Agenda Bumiputera (TERAJU), Prime Minister’s Department (JPM) last December 2017.

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IMELC 2017: Cheque Handover Ceremony by Sponsor to Winner Schools

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JOHOR BAHRU, 28 January 2018 – The 5th Iskandar Malaysia Ecolife Challenge (IMELC) 2017 jointly organized by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) and Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri Johor (JPNJ), sponsored by SWM Environment Sdn Bhd has been successfully conducted throughout the year of 2017.

Cheque handover ceremony with SJK(C) Kuo Kuang.

A total of 346 primary schools involving about 34,000 Year 6 students in Johor had participated in IMELC 2017.

The purpose of the ceremony is to handover the cheques and prizes to the winners sponsored by SWM Environment Sdn Bhd.

Cheque handover ceremony with SK Kempas.

The organizing team visited six winner schools on 23thuntil 24th of January 2017 to handover the cheques and prizes.

Cheque handover ceremony with SJK(C) Masai.

The ceremony is led by  Manager of Corporate Communications, SWM Environment Sdn Bhd, Melissa Ananthraj accompanied by Head of Environment, IRDA, Boyd Dionysius, Deputy Head of Academic Management Sector, JPNJ, Haji Shahilon Abd Halim and  Senior Lecturer, UTM, Dr. Nor Farahwahidah Abdul Rahman.

IMELC aims to create awareness of Low Carbon Society (LCS) among students, teachers and their families in achieving the target of carbon reduction for Iskandar Malaysia by year 2025 as outlined in the Low Carbon Society Blueprint for Iskandar Malaysia 2025, which was endorsed by the Prime Minister of Malaysia, and presented at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) the 18th session of Conference of Parties (COP 18) in 2012.

The cheque handover ceremony took place at SJK(C) Kuo Kuang , SJK(C) Masai, SK Kempas, SK Nong Chik, SJK(T) Permas Jaya and SJK(C) Tampoi. These schools won the final presentation of IMELC 2017 which was previously held on 7th November 2017 at Dewan Seminar JPNJ. Below is the result of the competition and the prizes:

Final Presentation:

First place: SJK(C) Kuo Kuang (RM10,000 cash prize)

Second place: SJK(C) Masai (RM8,000 cash prize)

Third place: SK Kempas (RM5,000 cash prize)

Recycling Module:

First place: SK Nong Chik (18,949.5kg collected; RM2,000 cash prize)

Second place: SJK(C) Kuo Kuang (11,024kg collected; RM1,500 cash prize)

Third place: SJK(C) Masai (8,765kg collected: RM1,000 cash prize)

Water and Electricity Saving Module:

First place: SJK(T) Permas Jaya (RM1,200 cash prize)

Second place: SK Kempas (RM800 cash prize)

Third place: SJK(C) Tampoi (RM500 cash prize)

SJK(C) Kuo Kuang bagged a total of RM11,500 cash prize in total. All the schools also received a 3R cage from SWM Environment Sdn. Bhd.

From the data collection and analysis by UTM, a total of 510,126.29kgCO2 is reduced by the participating schools. A total of RM15,543.96 electricity bills and RM30,860.56 water bills were saved and RM27,281.33 was collected from recycling module. If the pattern is replicated to all 346 schools for a year, a total of 2,215,733.55kgCO2 can be reduced and RM21,975,339.90 can be saved and earned. As more awareness on LCS is instilled in the school teachers and students, more LCS related projects are carried out by primary schools as the by-product of IMELC. IMELC 2018 will continue to be expanded to 403 schools.

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MJIIT, UTMKL Received Visit From Japanese Council For Science, Technology And Innovation, Government of Office

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Kuala Lumpur, 16 January 2018 – Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT) received a courtesy visit led by Dr. Kazuo Kyuma, Executive Member, Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office and his team; Prof. Kishi Teruo, Prof. Yozo Fujino, Prof. Noboru Noguchi, Dr. Seki Katsumi, Mr. Shiro Takegami, Mr. Masahiro Takemura dan Mr. Masaki Sato. Also accompanying the delegates were Mr.Ichiro Kuronuma, Education and Science Attache from Embassy of Japan in Malaysia.

The delegates were taken to visit the laboratories at MJIIT and was later given a presentation on the academic program, research collaboration. They were also shown the existing state of the art machines and equipment available at MJIIT and the various student activities conducted involving students from the Japanese university partnership programme.

Dr. Kazuo Kyuma introduced the SIP (Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program), a national program to realise the scientific and technological innovations in Japan. Among the high impact projects to be implemented are Enhancement of Societal Resiliency against Natural Disasters and Smart Agriculture toward Society 5.0 in Japan (Technologies for Creating Next Generation Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and Utilization of OT, Bigdata, AI and Robot).

MJIIT expressed its desire to cooperate and hoped to bring Japanese technology in Robotic Applications in the Agriculture Industry to Malaysia.

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Universiti Teknologi Malaysia leading the Autonomous Driving R&D field resulting to 1st Demo in Malaysia.

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In conjunction with the Ministry of Higher Education’s motto “Soaring Upwards”, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), being one of the main research universities in the country, has always envisioned to produce research outputs which can benefit the country and society, thus facilitating Malaysia’s dream to be a developed nation. Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is one of the main areas which is heavily discussed around the world. It is an umbrella term which foresees the birth of emerging technologies with disruptive effects, which in return will lead to the development of a smart city.

One of the pillars of innovation of 4IR is the autonomous vehicle (AV). The automated driving feature of the AV enables the host vehicle to navigate independently without any intervention of human driver. In Malaysia, the pioneering research group in the field of driverless vehicle is the Intelligent Drive team of the Vehicle System Engineering Research Group (VSE) from Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), UTM, Kuala Lumpur.

The team, led by Associate Professor Dr. Hairi Zamzuri with the support of Dr Mohd Azizi Abdul Rahman and Dr Mohd Hatta Mohd Arif, has initiated the in-house work in the said field since 2012. However, as AV is a very competitive and challenging area, the first phase of research in 2012-2016 focused on the Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) and Vehicle Active Safety work, which are the main components of AV.

Since 2017, the team has quietly worked on a fully-automated vehicle development. An AV prototype was developed through the collaboration between UTM and Moovita Pte Ltd . The protoptype is based on a 7-seater vehicle and encompasses several aspects and combining different modules (i.e. perception, localization and mapping, as well as guidance, navigation, and control). Just six months of extensive development and testing with two days setup demo, beginning Friday, 19 January 2018, the vehicle made its debut to the public. The team has successfully showcased the driverless vehicle prototype at the Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre (MaGIC, Cyberjaya). The significance of this demo is it exhibited the first driverless vehicle in Malaysia with full Level 5 automation. It is with much pride to mention that the showcased prototype was developed mostly by Malaysian talents.

Surely, this is only a step forward to a long and arduous journey ahead which will pose challenges and demands for further improvements. However, this achievement should be remembered and is hoped to expedite and catalysed the AV development in Malaysia. In addition, to enable the vehicle to be fully utilized on Malaysian roads, research in the area of AV development, covering other aspects such as user acceptance, policymaking as well as improvement on the prototype, should be continuously carried out.

UTM, soaring upwards!

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