Compact Luggage Strategy App, Innovation for Aviation from Indonesian Students in France

The aircraft company Airbus some time ago announced the winner of the global competition it held titled "Fly Your Ideas". The interesting thing about this competition is that one of the finalists is a student team from Indonesia. In this biennial competition, 350 works from around the world are contested.

The team consisting of Indonesian students named PassEx represented the Institut d'Administration des Enterprises IAE Toulouse, France. The team was chaired by Raisa Rico, a graduate student majoring in management at the campus. Raisa was accompanied by two colleagues in this competition, namely Mukhtar Amin, a graduate student in Aviation Engineering at ISAE Supaero and Dicky Adhitya Dwiantoro, a student of Global Navigation Satellite System at the Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC).

"The PassEx team wants to introduce the capabilities of Indonesian students in technology to industry players in Europe so that Indonesia is not only known for its culture but also for its human resources who excel in technology," Raisa said.

The solution developed by Raisa and the team is the Compact Luggage Strategy (CLS) Mobile App. His work is a system boarding revolutionaries who use mobile apps real-time to determine the status boarding each passenger, including adjusting to the size of their luggage. CLS tries to help overcome the problem of storage in the overhead compartment by distributing the position of passengers on the plane according to the size of their respective luggage.

Raisa is interested in aviation because she believes that the aviation industry can help connect the islands of Indonesia and advance areas that have not been reached by the government. Likewise with Dicky and Mukhtar. Both of them love the field of aviation because they have passion strong in the field of satellite navigation and aviation. In addition, Dicky added that the market for the navigation satellite industry is increasing drastically, thus enabling career opportunities in Europe in the future.

The competition, which was also initiated in collaboration with UNESCO, challenges the finalists to answer one of the challenges being contested, namely proposing sustainable solutions around alternative business models, passenger flying experiences, and flight operations. The participants were scrambling to win the grand prize of 30.000 euros or 435 million rupiah in cash.

The student team from Indonesia will compete in the final match which will be held in France against other finalists from Australia, France, Hong Kong, Nigeria, and England. The final session will spend a week at the Airbus ProtoSpace facility developing prototypes, testing, and visualizing their ideas using state-of-the-art equipment guided by Airbus personally.

At the end of their week in Toulouse, the students will present their innovative projects and prototypes in front of a panel of Airbus experts and aviation and academia.