On 28 April 2018 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India had achieved its goal, ahead of schedule, of providing electricity to every village in India. This is one of the greatest achievements in the history of energy.
Since 2000 around half a billion people have gained access to electricity in India, with political effort over the last five years significantly accelerating progress. In addition, the country was already on track to achieving universal household electricity access by the early 2020s, yet Prime Minister Modi has now moved up this target to the end of 2018. This will improve the lives of over 230 million people. [1]
IEA (2018), Electricity in every village in India, IEA, Paris https://www.iea.org/commentaries/electricity-in-every-village-in-india
However despite this statement it is a fact that power-failure in far away districts of india is very common. According to the masses in certain areas there is no electric supply for hours to days. However the demand of internet is steadily rising even in those areas where there is no electricity at all. To cope this situation the biggest internet and cellular network operator in india “Airtel” started a project which is called “Buffalo grid”. This is a smaller mobile
charging device which works with solar energy. At the same time it provides internet facility to multiple devices at a time. This is an interesting project to provide a facility to the masses who has no excess to the electricity temporarily or permanently. According to the project operator one must enter his phone number on the screen and he will be connected with the free internet facility. These devices are provided to the shops which were already providing easy load services to the people.
However this is not only the program to serve the people only. It involves the marketing and advertising strategy as well. It is the part of the biggest agenda to reach the “next billion”. Retailers and small shops are happy because when someone comes to use charging services, he definitely comes to buy some other stuff as well. So it increases sales as well. Masses has the advantage that they have access to the free internet services and charging facility.
Scewo is very interesting project that is very useful for the handicapped persons who cant walk or for the older people. Basically it is an advanced form of traditional wheelchair. According to the companies profile,
“With what we do, we make the previously impossible possible. We bring people together; use their expertise to create great things together. Through the interaction of design and technology, we develop products that stand for boundless freedom and quality of life.”
The start of this project is quite interesting. Bernhard winter completed his studies in 2014 
and for his degree project he wanted to create a robot who could be able to drive independently on two wheel and could climb stairs. He arranged a team of three students and within nine months his team developed his first prototype which was named scalevo. However this wasn’t the final. They continued to work and converted it into prototype two which was called scewo. Their prototype won the ZKB pioneer prize 2018 as well. After two years they invited investors and started Scewo Bro in 2018.
This product has many features including climbing the stairs and steep pathways. It can reach to the speed of 10km/h and can travel to 25Km in a single charging. However these parameters can be improved as well.
It uses three gyroscopes to balance the chair automatically. These gyroscopes measure the angular velocity to fulfill the objective. According to Winter,
“driving up and down steps is virtually effortless, while accelerating and then rapidly breaking won’t throw a user out of their chair because of the lack of horizontal forces involved.”
In 2019 this product was presented for sale in Germany and Austria for the first time. It got popularity overnights from its launch because it was a problem solving structure for a specific part of society.
[1] IEA (2018), Electricity in every village in India, IEA, Paris https://www.iea.org/commentaries/electricity-in-every-village-in-india
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