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Two young people from Malang, East Java, Tubagus and Ashab create a technology-based livestock startup called ‘ChikIn Indonesia’. This startup is to make it easier for farmers to control the climate of the chicken coop through applications on smartphones and provide direct data digitally. They started a business during college and met in the young entrepreneurial community of Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, East Java. Previously, Tubagus is in the food business, coffee shops, plastic and yarn recycling. While Ashab is a man who graduated from the ranch department, and he brings his knowledge in improving ranch efficiency.

Then, they established a joint business partnership in the ranch field. As entrepreneurs, both of them identify the problems that exist in chicken farms in Indonesia. After four years of running a conventional chicken coop business, both of them faced many problems in the production of close house chicken coops, including low meat growth ratio, high mortality rate, and wasted electricity. These series of problems affect the chicken farm business which has a small margin for farmers. As a solution, they finally took advantage of Internet of Things (IoT) technology. Ahmad as ChikIn Indonesia's Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is the figure behind the development of digital infrastructure and IoT devices in the company. He said that running a ranch business requires comprehensive data on chicken needs, such as the amount of feed, temperature, humidity, and electricity consumption. The data is provided to farmers and cage owners so that they can run their business more efficiently.

ChikIn Indonesia develops hardware in the chicken coop that is integrated with software used via smartphones to make it easier for farmers to control data and control the temperature and humidity of the hencoop according to the needs of the chickens. In addition, AI ChickIn's artificial intelligence technology is also able to recognize the climate needs of chickens according to the age and size of the chickens. ChikIn claims that the benefit of using ChickIn's Smart Farm technology is that farmers who use IoT save an average of up to Rp 3,000 per chicken for feed efficiency and Rp 1,000 per chicken for cost reduction.