Emerging Technology Intervention Model of Core Support …
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Sustaintech has helped TIDE to address legal limitations and barriers to achieving
scale and delivering triple bottom line impact of grassroots enterprise model of user
friendly and energy efficient wood burning stoves (brand name PYRO).
Two decades of experience in designing for other similar clusters has contributed
to the easy acceptance of the stoves at the users’ level. Such innovative work by
TIDE in the past has won international recognition i.e. Ashden award for Sustainable
Energy and Social Venture Network Innovation Award 2014.
Case Study VI: Micro Solar Dome (MSD) Technology
Similarly, NB Institute of Rural Technology based in Tripura has developed cost
effective and eco-friendly solar lighting device, which would prove to be a boon for
the urban slums and rural households in the country that do not have reliable access to
electricity. Micro Solar Dome (MSD) captures sunlight through a transparent semispherical upper dome and concentrates it inside a dark room (Box 4). The light passes
through a sun-tube having a thin layer of highly reflective coating on the inner wall
of the passage. It also contains a lower dome having a shutter at the bottom that
can be closed if light is not required in the daytime. It is leak proof and works for
almost 16 h daily i.e. throughout the day and 4 h after sunset using higher capacity
solar PV modules to improve indoor livelihood activities and lighting needs with
saving of fossil fuels to a great extent. According to a testing report, the illumination
level of the light during mid-day goes as high as a 15 W LED bulb with zero carbon
emission. Field trials have been conducted and Micro Solar Domes are being installed
by slums dwellers and rural households in remote areas for eradicating the problem of
lighting at affordable price with reduce indoor pollution and expenditure on kerosene,
which helps them to live a better standard of life as well as livelihood generation
(weaving, wool combing etc.) with less expenditure on electricity. Further, efforts
are being made to design and install MSD through adaptive research for need-based
modifications as per climatic conditions and varied type of housing like snow covered
region, and for stone ceiling in mountain areas.
3 Discussion: Success Factors and Drivers of Change
for Technology Customization, Delivery and Scaling Up
3.1 Technology Growth Model of Core Support with Local
Institutional Arrangements
Comprehensive analysis of interventions made by abovementioned S&T based field
groups (CSGs) to provide technological solutions clearly indicate effective role being
played by their respective core teams comprising scientist, technologists and social
scientist in customization/development and delivery of technology products and
packages though cycle of innovation and field trials, incubation, field demonstration under field conditions and make them ready for replication and high impact
471
Sustaintech has helped TIDE to address legal limitations and barriers to achieving
scale and delivering triple bottom line impact of grassroots enterprise model of user
friendly and energy efficient wood burning stoves (brand name PYRO).
Two decades of experience in designing for other similar clusters has contributed
to the easy acceptance of the stoves at the users’ level. Such innovative work by
TIDE in the past has won international recognition i.e. Ashden award for Sustainable
Energy and Social Venture Network Innovation Award 2014.
Case Study VI: Micro Solar Dome (MSD) Technology
Similarly, NB Institute of Rural Technology based in Tripura has developed cost
effective and eco-friendly solar lighting device, which would prove to be a boon for
the urban slums and rural households in the country that do not have reliable access to
electricity. Micro Solar Dome (MSD) captures sunlight through a transparent semispherical upper dome and concentrates it inside a dark room (Box 4). The light passes
through a sun-tube having a thin layer of highly reflective coating on the inner wall
of the passage. It also contains a lower dome having a shutter at the bottom that
can be closed if light is not required in the daytime. It is leak proof and works for
almost 16 h daily i.e. throughout the day and 4 h after sunset using higher capacity
solar PV modules to improve indoor livelihood activities and lighting needs with
saving of fossil fuels to a great extent. According to a testing report, the illumination
level of the light during mid-day goes as high as a 15 W LED bulb with zero carbon
emission. Field trials have been conducted and Micro Solar Domes are being installed
by slums dwellers and rural households in remote areas for eradicating the problem of
lighting at affordable price with reduce indoor pollution and expenditure on kerosene,
which helps them to live a better standard of life as well as livelihood generation
(weaving, wool combing etc.) with less expenditure on electricity. Further, efforts
are being made to design and install MSD through adaptive research for need-based
modifications as per climatic conditions and varied type of housing like snow covered
region, and for stone ceiling in mountain areas.
3 Discussion: Success Factors and Drivers of Change
for Technology Customization, Delivery and Scaling Up
3.1 Technology Growth Model of Core Support with Local
Institutional Arrangements
Comprehensive analysis of interventions made by abovementioned S&T based field
groups (CSGs) to provide technological solutions clearly indicate effective role being
played by their respective core teams comprising scientist, technologists and social
scientist in customization/development and delivery of technology products and
packages though cycle of innovation and field trials, incubation, field demonstration under field conditions and make them ready for replication and high impact