Smart Biogas II - Increasing Wealth from Waste

智能沼气 II - 从废物中增加财富

• 批准号: 105909
• 金额: $ 57.29万
• 依托单位: INCLUSIVE ENERGY LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=105909
• 关键词: Smart; Biogas; II; Increasing; Wealth

Smart Biogas is an Internet of Things (IoT) platform monitoring numerous geographically dispersed household/institutional biogas digesters at minimal cost. Smart Biogas collects data on individual biogas digesters' functionality, allowing detection of potential faults or substandard installation/operation. This data is transmitted to a cloud platform where it facilitates prompt repairs or further user training. Hardware and software was designed and successfully prototyped with Energy Catalyst Round 4 funding (No.132479). Further market research, user testing and feedback has key enhancements that would enable the biogas companies to scale their operations more rapidly and access currently unreached markets. The additional features including pay-as-you-go functionality, enhanced analytics and carbon offset verification, seek to address financial barriers and operational inefficiencies enabling viable biogas-as-a-service commercial models, enhancing company operations and providing additional income streams. Smart Biogas provides a powerful tool that facilitates increased access to biogas technology for more people, especially the rural poor. The project is led by Connected Energy Technologies, with support from prominent actors in the biogas sector in East Africa, Kenya Biogas Program and Biogas Solutions Uganda, along with technical input from the University of Nottingham.

智能沼气是一个物联网（IoT）平台，以最低的成本监测地理上分散的众多家庭/机构沼气池。智能沼气收集单个沼气池功能的数据，允许检测潜在故障或不合格的安装/操作。这些数据被传输到云平台，便于及时维修或进一步的用户培训。硬件和软件的设计和原型成功的能源催化剂第四轮资助（No.132479）。进一步的市场研究、用户测试和反馈具有重要的增强作用，这将使沼气公司能够更快地扩大其业务规模，并进入目前尚未进入的市场。附加功能包括现收现付功能、增强的分析和碳抵消验证，旨在解决财务障碍和运营效率低下的问题，实现可行的沼气即服务商业模式，增强公司运营并提供额外的收入来源。智能沼气提供了一个强大的工具，促进更多的人，特别是农村贫困人口获得沼气技术。该项目由互联能源技术公司牵头，得到了东非沼气行业知名参与者、肯尼亚沼气项目和乌干达沼气解决方案的支持，并得到了诺丁汉大学的技术投入。