• OwnWall - Building the rural electrification of tomorrow

      Software defined power converters
      to trigger bottom up rural electrification

    • Jean Alinei, product designer for the OwnWall project, talks about our idea.

    • Rural electrification challenges

      One Billion - 1 000 000 000

      Is the number of people without access to electricity, most of them women

      Solutions are too unique

      Field practionners solve each case with specific solutions leading to high development costs of non re-usable technical solutions.

      Renewable energy is not readily available

      Renewable energy is intermittent and requires complex solutions

      Prices struggle to be competitive

      Rural electrification is not cheap, specially in terms of maintenance

      Fossil-fuels based solutions are not sustainable

      Diesel generators are widely used in rural electrification, but they are neither sustainable nor cheap

      Technology is proprietary, but maintenance is collective

      Proprietary technology blocks the path to long-term maintenance and local development

    • Power electronics for electrification

      Energy can be locally manufactured ...

      There are solutions to locally build renewable energy sources

      ... but power electronics are still off-the-shelf

      The key to energy management is power electronics, but its design remains proprietary technology

      Off-the-shelf technology often means customs fees

      Importing off-the-shelf power converters often means custom fees and delays that can hamper long-term energy provision

      Developing solutions takes time, people and funds

      Locally developping a solution may seem a good idea, but time to market and slim ressources are a great hurdle to overcome

      Maintenance means proximity between field and industry

      Effective maintenance requires a close link between the industry providing the technology and rural communities

    • Our disruptive proposition

      Open standard hardware

      Using a standard, universal and open hardware converter will dramatically cut costs.

      This standard element will be a game-changer in an emerging market, by combining high-tech with local manufacturing.

      Collaborative software marketplace

      From an universal hardware it will be possible to create and sell collaborative software.

      These software defined power converters will provide the final user the tools to answer any problems emerging from the field.

      Innovative business models

      With hardware compatibility and software flexibility, field practionners can diversify their business models.

      Global companies can increase profitability by moving from selling hardware to leasing software.

    • The OwnWall Project

      Robust Open-Source Power Electronics Technology for Bottom-Up Rural Electrification

      An unique power converter

      Flexibility lies in redundancy

      Using redundancy to favor flexibility, the open-source three-phase converter of the OwnWall project is the generic platform needed to answer the needs of the field

      Going to the source

      Knowledge is best shared

      All the development is led on from a centralized repository.
      You can access it below.

    • The Blog

      Going to Siemens CKI conference in Erlangen
      July 12, 2018
      We proudly annonce that we are selected as finalist for the the TAPAS challenge organized by Siemens.
      Test and caracterisation Workshop in Athens
      May 5, 2018

    • Meet the team

      Dr. Luiz Lavado

      Associate Professor

      University of Toulouse - France

      Rafael Oliva

      Electronics Engineer

      L&R Ingeniaria - Argentina

      Jean Alinei

      Product Engineer

      ACE - France

      Ronan Blanchard

      Control Engineer

      Grenoble INP - France

    • They support us

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