CONNECTIVITY IS PRODUCTIVITY
The mobile phone is the most successful electronic device in history. It is the first and only device to reach the most remote rural and low-income regions of the world. This success is due to a simple business model: Mobile Network Operators provide the infrastructure and run an accessible service that everyone wants. Following this example BuffaloGrid is doing what mobile network operators did for telecommunication to electrical power.
The UN says "Mobile phones are the biggest contributor to economic growth in off-grid rural populations". But keeping a phone charged when off-grid is frustrating and expensive. People travel large distances to charge their phones, pay for the world's most expensive electricity, and lose their phones for half a day while they charge. Twice a week.
BuffaloGrid offers power to rural people in the developing world.
BuffaloGrid has created a profitable and patent-pending way to reliably deliver power to remote areas. It makes power affordable. A charged phone means access to services such as mobile-banking, water point mapping, and eventually the internet and the world.
BuffaloGrid makes billing and promotion possible, because it knows exactly who power goes to. No other system has this mix of secure information and easy access, which we believe is the key to bringing mobile network operators into the power distribution market.
BuffaloGrid is a gateway for new types of power services, billing and promotion that bring remote rural villages into the information age. The phones and network infrastructure exist, what is needed is a way to power them. BuffaloGrid solar powered Hubs bring power to people, right where it's needed. A decentralised energy source is the key to bringing power to widely distributed off-grid people. At BuffaloGrid we believe that people need access to power, not ownership of inefficient or polluting power solutions.
BuffaloGrid uses clean solar power, which increases access to safe phone charging and lighting, reducing respiratory complaints and indirectly tackling other problems such as the danger created by kerosene lamps that claim the lives of 1.5 million people each year, over half of which are under the age of five. Having safe lighting also means that people can be more productive through the dark hours, allowing children to study for longer.
BuffaloGrid Hubs can also be used to provide off-grid power for a range of vital uses from medical to educational applications, bringing economic growth to rural communities around the world.
