India: Hybrid Ultra-Capacitors and Teaching Devices

Author(s)

• James Ryan Kronk, University of Dayton

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

9-3-2018

Abstract

In the summer of 2018, James “Ryan” Kronk performed volunteer work at the non-governmental organization, SELCO Foundation in Bangalore, India. Bangalore is one of the largest cities in India by population, and it is located in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. SELCO Foundation’s philosophy is to provide solar energy solutions to the impoverished peoples of India or those that are determined to be in most need. SELCO Foundation is funded through grants and donations from companies or governments. Ryan Kronk was involved in multiple different projects during his time at SELCO Foundation. The main projects were working with hybrid ultra-capacitors (HUC), educational technologies, or databases. The HUC project involved working out the costs over time associated with using HUC with installed photovoltaic (PV) for small entrepreneurs. It was found that the costs would be prohibitive to the entrepreneurs. One educational technologies project involved determining the appropriate PV technologies needed to power small braille-teaching devices for schools for the visually impaired. By the end of the internship, Ryan was able to identify a school in Haveri, Karnataka to pilot the technology. Ryan’s other education project was to find a low-cost computing solution for rural schools to attain a better one-to-one education. NComputing’s MX-series thin clients were deemed suitable to be paired with existing free software in the classrooms. At the time Ryan left, there were 5 schools targeted for piloting projects. Lastly Ryan updated a SELCO Foundation database for better identification of issues to address.

eCommons Citation

Kronk, James Ryan, "India: Hybrid Ultra-Capacitors and Teaching Devices" (2018). ETHOS Technical Reports. 47.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ethos_reports/47