The technology is part of a challenge launched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The prototype is part of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, an initiative launched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2011.“There are 4.5 billion people in the world without access to adequate sanitation systems,”
Doulaye Koné, deputy director of water, sanitation and health at the Gates Foundation. “We need new science and new engineering to solve the problem.”“During three years of research and development, SAIT worked on the basic design and developed the component and modular technology, leading to the successful development of a prototype for household use.
Samsung added that it plans to offer royalty-free licenses of the toilet’s patents to developing countries and continue to provide close consultation to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help bring the technologies to mass production. The firm further added that the two organizations will work together to identify industry partners willing to commercialize the technology, after making the design more efficient for mass production.
“The last seven years,” Koné said in 2018, “we’ve been able to move these ideas from prototype in the lab, to field testing, to maturing the technology for use by real customers. Now, we are at a stage where companies are coming forward to license these products and develop them for commercial launch.”for developing nations much in need of this technology.
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