Rumine’s Techism wins ASEAN ICT Award

IT startup Rumine Company’s coaching simulation product Techism grabbed gold within the Digital Content material Class of the ASEAN ICT Awards (AICTA) 2021.

Techism was the only real winner out of 4 entries from Brunei, and have been chosen after a pitch to a panel of industry-leading judges from Japan and China final month.

The award is the newest feather within the cap for the award profitable, youth-led startup, who beforehand swept the Brunei and Asia Pacific ICT Alliance awards, whereas additionally incomes prime accolades final yr from DARe’s Speed up programme and the LiveWIRE Brunei Enterprise Awards.

Rumine’s Techism is a digital actuality coaching device for studying to utilise heating, air flow, and air con (HVAC) programs. Much like Rumine’s different merchandise, Techism permits trainees within the area to just about follow meeting and different mechanical processes seamlessly utilizing hand movement sensors.

Rumine’s founders mentioned digital coaching instruments may also help gauge and enhance competency ranges in a secure surroundings, appearing as a precursor or supplemental device to real-world coaching.

“At present Techism is for HVAC programs however we’re engaged on including extra trainings onto our software-as-a-service platform the place everybody, not simply these in Brunei, can go to our market and do any coaching that’s supplied on the platform,” mentioned co-founder and CEO Sarinah Ziziumiza.

She added that Techsim can be launched throughout the yr after closing validation from {industry} specialists.

Rumine earned six figures final yr, pushed largely by creating coaching and academic content material for established gamers in the private and non-private sector.

Sarinah Ziziumiza mentioned shoppers interact them to develop prolonged actuality (XR) experiences utilising Augmented Actuality (AR), VR – or generally a mixture of each – to just about put together individuals for offline eventualities.

Main tasks embody security VR simulations for the Security, Well being, and Surroundings Nationwide Authority (SHENA); a web-based techwork studying portal for the Institute of Brunei Technical Schooling; and AR studying books with gamification for the Ministry of Schooling.

Rumine was formally established in 2020, although its founding 4 members have been working collectively on IT tasks since 2018, leveraging on one another’s particular person strengths.

“The 4 of us come from completely different backgrounds; I’m into instructing pedagogy, researching, and engineering. My associate (and sister) Nursheila’s background is in info programs, whereas Laila (Lailatun Najihah Ahmad Humaizi) is below media content material and Hafeez (Ak Hafeezur Rahman Pg Hj Ramlee) is in software program improvement,” mentioned Sarinah.

The founding members credited numerous tech and entrepreneurship programmes they participated in serving to them develop their technical and enterprise acumen.

These embody the Brunei ICT Awards (BICTA) Plus Bootcamp and extra just lately the Tech Immersion Programme, a six months post-BICTA mentorship programme beginning in December 2021. They have been additionally a part of the seventh cycle of DARe’s flagship startup improvement programme Speed up.

Brunei’s different AICTA entries this yr have been the Land Transport Division’s Street Accident Knowledge Enhancement and Growth below the Public Sector class and NiAT’s Observe and ITPSS’s Facehunter below the Personal Sector class.