3 rd National Conference on Knowledge Transfer, 2016, Penang, 30 Nov - 1 Dec 2016 128 Knowledge for All FIECO-R4-101: Development of Hazard Detection System for Shrimp Survival Nazrina Aziz 1,* , Masnita Misiran 1 , Nor Idayu Mahat 1 , Muhammad Mat Yusof 1 , Amir Shah Ruddin 2 , Mohd Afiq Razi 3,** 1 School of Quantitative Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010 Kedah, Malaysia 2 School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang Malaysia 3 Arca Biru Sdn Bhd, Ayer Hitam, Kedah Malaysia * Corresponding author: nazrina@uum.edu.my ** Partner: afiq@bluearchipelago.com Abstract This paper discusses the development of an analytical system to monitor the survival of shrimp at the iKERPAN fully integrated aquaculture park, located at the Kuala Kerpan, Kedah. The iKERPAN has to deal with the White Spot Syndrome Virus, a kind or shrimp disease which affects the productions of the farm. The farm performs daily data collections, but the data are underutilized due to incapability of people to transform the data into much informative for quick decision makings. Thus, the goal of transferring knowledge of an analytical system is to assist the people to identify some problems that may harm the production of shrimp in systematic ways. The developed analytical system was developed in three main phases. Phase I involved several round table discussion among researchers to recognise the loopholes in data collection procedures and the analyses that had been practices. Next, extensive analytical system was performed in Phase II by transforming all the needed analyses and reports into a dashboard created using an Excel platform to allow for greater evidence based numerical analyses in much lower cost. Finally, series of testing were performed in Phase III to assess the reliability of the developed system in conjunction to the ultimate goal for identifying potential of occurrence of White Spot Syndrome Virus in production of shrimp. The developed dashboard is capable to gather all the needed information from the collected data in much systematic way and quick for review. Besides, it assists the production people to recognise an early signal for potential harm starting from the hatching process until the harvest period for every pond at the iKERPAN. Keywords: Shrimp survival, dashboard, data management system 1. Introduction iKERPAN (Integrated Kerpan) operates an integrated shrimp farm consisting of 226 ponds on a 1,000 acres land in Kuala Kerpan, Kedah. It is managed by Arca Biru Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary company owned by Blue Archipelago Berhad since January 2008. On site, there are grow out ponds, hatchery and processing plant. Historically, November until January every year are the period when the farm is vulnerable to shrimp disease, especially the White Spot Syndrome Virus. As the result, the productions on these months are badly affected. From previous visit to the site, a lot of input data are available at the company. Since most of employees are not well-trained with quantitative skills, most data are under-utilized. This may result in overlooking potential solution in current scenario. Hence the introduction for good practice of data management system in handling amount of data available in Arca Biru will help them to significantly improve their data input process. By having effective data management in line with comprehensive system of analyses, the handling of problem and issue currently faced in Arca Biru can be systematically catered. A systematic system of analyses will provide the staff an early signal of disease detection hence some precautions and actions can be performed to avoid the ponds from damage at large scale. This effort is hoped to help Arca Biru maintain their competitiveness in international arena, in general, especially in Japan, US and EU Continent market.