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A bright idea for remote villages
SFU engineering student Eric Hennessey, a member of Engineers Without Borders, has created a device to help an international development project improve the quality of life for people in remote villages in developing countries. Hennessey’s data logger tracks the usage of more than 1,000 lamps operating in villages in India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. The lamps, produced by the Light Up the World Foundation, are powered by renewable resources and use efficient, long-life light-emitting diodes. “I thought a data logging system could quantify the usefulness of the lamps by tracking the hours and times of usage, along with other performance characteristics,” Hennessey says. The logger stores data on the lamp’s usage in a memory bank, for later transfer and uploading to a computer. For more information |
