Simbalink: Towards a Sustainable and Feasible Solar Rural Electrification System
Simbalink: Towards a Sustainable and Feasible Solar Rural Electrification System, Schelling, N., Hasson, M. J., Huong, S. L., Nevarez, A., Lu, W. C., Tierney, M., Subramanian, L., Schützeichel, H. (2010, December). In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (p. 42). ACM.
Rural areas lack sustainable electrification solutions…In this paper, we describe our experiences deploying more than 5,000 Solar Home Systems in Ethiopia and the sustainability problems we faced. Towards developing a decentralized and sustainable solar solution, we have designed SIMbaLink, an extremely low-cost real-time solar monitoring system that significantly reduces both the maintenance costs and the time to repair.