Switch on the pumpset with your mobile

NANO GANESH

The device called as 'Nano Ganesh' helps a farmer to switch on/off the pump-set through a call made by a mobile or a land line phone or even a PCO phone from anywhere in the world.
It will be priced between Rs.560 and Rs.1700 was commercially launched on 23rd September 08 in Pune.

Santosh Hiralal Ostwal, established a research and development center to develop the product in Pune in 1996. He developed a mobile modem, which controls the starter of the pump set. The modem along with a mobile phone, which interfaces a 440 volt system, is attached to the starter panel of the pump-set. On the deployment of the system, a pre-set code is given to the farmer to switch on/off the pump-set. In order to switch on the set a farmer has to call up the number of the mobile phone attached in the starter panel. One can confirm the availability of the power in the pump-set by a long beep sound, which will be signalled from the receiving end during the call Followed by the confirmation of availability of the power, the caller has to dial a preset code provided for the user to switch on the pump set. Once the code is dialled the user has to confirm his function by a feedback tone and then cut the call. For switching off the pump-set, the same process has to be repeated and a different preset code is entered to switch off the pump-set.

To make the phones easily accessible to the farmer community, Santosh deployed basic phones like Nokia 1100. To ease the system of deployment, the company provides the buyer with a CD, an instruction manual and a wiring diagram along with the product explaining in a step by step way to fit and use 'Nano Ganesh'. The modem is also available with a theft proof inbuilt device called 'Nano Ganesh Hanuman', whereby its installation will also ensure alert in case of theft attempt near the pump area related to pump-set cable, panel or pump itself.


See the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeZ4jzV8VVY