BIJU NARAYANAN: DEVEOPING MULTIPURPOSE SOLAR MIXIE
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| Biju Narayanan, Thodupuzha, Ernakulam |
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When he saw his wife’s inability
to use the mixie during powercuts, he decided to do something about it. An innovator since his school days, he wanted
to develop a device that could be operated even when there is no external
electric power.
And a decade of
painstaking efforts later, Biju Narayanan of Thodupuzha, Ernakulam has produced
a solar mixie that doubles as wifi, vacuum cleaner, coconut scrapper, emergency
light, radio, vegetable chopper etc.
53-year-old Biju
Narayanan is a self-taught electronics innovator. As a youngster, he was fond of listening to
music. Since he had no radio, he taught
himself to build one on his own, thus startling his school friends.
Biju Narayanan’s solar
mixie can be charged either using solar panel or direct power connection. What is more, because it works on direct current,
the consumption is very less and the device gets charged by reverse current.
After decade-long
struggle to develop the product, he won the Kerala Government’s Rural
Innovation Award for 2021. He is now
working to make it available commercially.
Bharatspeaks.com,
May 22, 2023
