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Keywords: Technology, Shunting, Prototype, Research and Development, Descriptive Percentage, HC-SR04, ESP8266, Persentase Deskriptif, Teknologi, Langsir

ABSTRACT

Railways are one of the modes of transportation that prioritize the continuity of operations. One of them is the shunting activity, previously the gesture was delivered with flags, flute, and/lanterns, now it has been developed using Handy Talky (HT). However, in the use of HT and some of these tools, there are still problems. Then the author spreads a questionnaire to the first machinist to assess the constraints and needs of the shunting tool. The research continued with the design of a prototype of a shunting tool using the Research and Development method. Then data analysis was carried out using the percentage descriptive method with a questionnaire assessment with a likert scale to find out the level of needs of the prototype tool to be made. The results of the needs analysis were known, 28 people (63%) rated the need for this tool as high/urgently needed, 6 people (26%) rated moderate/needed, and 4 people (11%) rated low/not needed. It is known that tool pairing can be done with an average time of 4.7 seconds, the farthest distance of the tool connection is 65 meters (without hindrance), and the error rate is 0.37%.