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The cost of electricity is a huge barrier to ICT adoption in the developing world. Rolling blackouts are common in cities, while in peri-urban and rural areas, there’s no gird electricity infrastructure – its all solar or generator power. Yet petrol or diesel generators are hard to maintain and solar power is expensive – $10+ per Watt.

In an effort to make every Watt count, Inveneo develops low-power computers that are highly energy efficient. We’ve brought down the power draw of a Inveneo Computing Station to 17 Watts thanks to custom LCD screens and Intel Atom chipsets. But what does that really mean for an end user?

Let’s compare and Inveneo High-Efficiency Computing Station with a traditional desktop computer:

To be truthful, even we were blown away by the difference. We knew the Dell would burn through the standard deep cycle battery pretty quickly. It lasted only 3 hours. But we didn’t expect the Inveneo Computing Station to last for 60 hours – 20x longer.

For everyone from a cybercafe owner to a school to a microfinance institution, this should be an immediate “wow!”. With Inveneo you can go 1.5 weeks on a single charge, reducing dependency on grid power or generator usage. And your solar power costs will be 1/10th or less than a traditional computer.

Learn more about Inveneo Low-power Solutions

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