A new start-up in South Africa, a spin-off from Fraunhofer Institutes, aims to provide basic facilities like clean water, electricity and healthcare to remote regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Their innovative solutions are small-scale and off-grid infrastructure systems installed on pick-up trucks for easy access.
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No clean water, no functioning electricity grid, no primary healthcare – a scenario that is not uncommon in remote areas of the sub-Saharan region. The founding of “S Mile Solutions (Pty) Ltd”, a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, is seeking to change this. The start-up, based in Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa, provides smart, small-scale and off-grid infrastructure solutions that are mounted on commercially available pick-up trucks, thereby enabling companies and institutions to access rural and remote communities with their services and products.