I-Corps: Monitoring and Evaluation of Humanitarian Development Projects

I-Corps项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力在于其识别物联网连接传感器技术和监控服务的潜在客户的能力，这些服务可以提供有关为人道主义援助环境设计的技术的采用率和影响的及时准确数据。最初的重点是非政府组织，这些组织资助、制造或向仍在明火上做饭的农村社区分发清洁、节能的生物质炉灶。然后，该项目将利用旨在提高能源效率的水净化和食品生产的技术，探索潜在的客户群。提供准确和及时的数据的更广泛影响将指导和促进援助组织改进设计、能源效率和以文化为导向的营销工作，从而改善公众健康和生计。I-Corps项目将使客户能够发现燃料、使用和排放记录仪（Fuel）系统。FUEL通过对监测开发项目的重大挑战的第一手观察得出设计思维方法，是首批物联网（IoT）可连接传感器之一，专门设计用于提供准确的时间相关技术使用和减排数据。我们将继续努力开发传输硬件和软件架构，使传感器成为自主物联网和数据存储/传输/分析设备，并在设计时考虑到用户。详细的客户发现对于告知该技术的目标、限制、包装和定价以吸引潜在客户以及识别潜在的商业化合作伙伴和竞争对手至关重要。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project lies in its ability to identify potential customers for IoT connected sensor technology and monitoring services that provide timely and accurate data regarding the adoption rates and impacts of technologies engineered for humanitarian aid settings. Initially, the focus is toward non-government organizations who fund, manufacture or distribute clean, energy efficient, biomass cookstoves to rural communities who still cook over open fires. The project will then explore potential customer segments with technologies engineered to improve energy efficient water purification, and food production. The broader impact of providing accurate and timely data will guide and promote aid organizations to improve the design, energy efficiency, and culturally directed marketing efforts thereby improving public health and livelihoods.This I-Corps project will enable customer discovery of a Fuel, Usage, and Emissions Logger (FUEL) system. Conceived via a design thinking approach informed by first hand observations of the significant challenges of monitoring development projects, FUEL is one of the first Internet of Things (IoT) connectable sensor specifically engineered to provide accurate time-correlated technology usage and emissions reduction data. Continuing efforts will develop the transmission hardware and software architecture needed to enable the sensor to become an autonomous IoT and data storage/transfer/analysis device, designed with the users in mind. Detailed customer discovery is essential to informing the objectives, constraints, packaging, and pricing for this technology to be attractive to potential customers as well as identifying potential commercialization partners and competitors.