This company is doing great

Since I belong to Telecom world, i always dream of making this world a pioneer in energy saving mechanisms. This is keeping a fact in mind that even a small server digests many many KWA per hour.

See any system which you prepare as a solution, the power consumption is a major factor. I always use to ponder that how do we solve it. There are so many initiatives from IBM, HP, etc they all design ATCA systems or some say we have ATCA compliant systems but there is some lacking of serious efforts it seems.

But I found one organisation which has really found a path breaking solution.

It is Vihaan Networks Limited; company based out of Gurgaon, India.
They have technology called WorldGSM™ which is a new approach to delivering profitable mobile services to rural markets. It’s the first example of microtelecom, the re-engineering of telecommunications to meet the needs of rural and remote communities.

As they put it on their website;

It uses:

#Low-power — at less than 100W per Base Station, the entire system can be run on solar power. No power grid or generator necessary.

# Low cost — a fraction of the cost of traditional GSM Base Stations; profitable at very low densities and ARPUs.

# Self-deploying — an entire WorldGSM™ Base Station packs into two carts and is easily installed by unskilled field staff who may not be able to read or write. No buildings, power, air conditioning. Just point it South and turn it on.

# Near-Zero Maintenance — update software remotely and perform simple swap repairs if needed.

# Cascading Star Architecture™ — a unique, modular architecture optimised for low-cost rural expansion; with local switching to minimise backhaul.

By some estimates, India alone already uses over 1.8 billion litres of diesel fuel every year to power Base Stations when the grid is not present or not available. This does not include the fuel needed to transport fuel to the mobile sites.

WorldGSM™ is the lowest power mobile infrastructure ever invented — by an order of magnitude. This not only directly reduces its carbon footprint, it also allows the system to be entirely solar- and/or wind-powered.

For the first time, mobile communications come without the associated environmental impact.

American magazine FastCompany has come out with a list of most Innovative companies, The only other Indian company the top 50 in the list is Indian technology start-up, VNL.

VNL-article on rediff

More can be read about the company at:

VNL official website