SMART-TIN© : An Integrated And Intelligent System For The Design Of Adaptive Agroindustry (A Conceptual Framework)

Abstract

Global climate change is one of the most challenging problems for us in today and in the near future. This global change in our climate can lead to the shortage of the food, water,bio-energy and natural medicine that will affect the quality of human life. This problem can be solved by the development of agroindustry. The main cause is that the development of agro-industry in Indonesiais inappropriate due to lack of system design process that takes into considerationthe issue of global climate change. Moreover, agroindustry in Indonesia is designed partially and the design process is not supported by the use of modern computation and information technology. In fact, the design of agro-industry is complex and involves many factors and large data-bases and more importantly, needs a good intelligence to process data and information to good decisions. Therefore, the way to design and manage agro-industryin Indonesia should be improved in order to meet the design objectives. Hence, this research aims to develop an integrated and intelligent system (namely SMART-TIN©) for the design of adaptive agro-industrial system in order to achieve a sustainable agro-industry that can mitigate global climate change and at the same time secure food, water, energy and natural medicine supply. Due to the complexity and scale of the problem, the development of SMART-TIN© in this research will be supported byadvanced computing technology, both in software and in hardware. By developing and then applying SMART-TIN© in real-life the agricultural and agro-industrial system in Indonesia can be designed and then managed well so the threat of global climate change and its negative impact to food, water, natural medicine and bio-energy supply can be reduced to the lowest level.