Moses - Research and product development of a solar powered low-resource baby warmer
(2025) IDEM05 20251Industrial Design
- Abstract
- With the brief of creating a solution for off-grid environments powered by solar cells, and the countless of solvable tasks existing in certain off-grid places I opted to looking at the highly populated areas of off-grid living and how the most basic needs are being met there. The meaning of off-grid is that a living space, house, or village, is self-sufficient. The living space isn’t connected to an electricity grid, to a sewage system or other similar public utilities.
To begin the research on this type of living I began with talking to a friend who has lived on the countryside outside of Gaborone in Botswana, where he and many off his friends and colleagues lived of-grid. Further discussions and research lead me onto designing the... (More) - With the brief of creating a solution for off-grid environments powered by solar cells, and the countless of solvable tasks existing in certain off-grid places I opted to looking at the highly populated areas of off-grid living and how the most basic needs are being met there. The meaning of off-grid is that a living space, house, or village, is self-sufficient. The living space isn’t connected to an electricity grid, to a sewage system or other similar public utilities.
To begin the research on this type of living I began with talking to a friend who has lived on the countryside outside of Gaborone in Botswana, where he and many off his friends and colleagues lived of-grid. Further discussions and research lead me onto designing the Moses-incubator. To fulfill a very basal need: surviving infancy.
Moses is a low-resource incubator, an affordable and efficient baby warmer that helps improve the quality of life for those living residentially in off-grid settings. There is an ongoing struggle, globally, of parents, mid-nurses, and doctors who encounter the same issue: How to keep a prematurely born baby alive and warm when there is no access to consistent electricity or protective healthcare equipment. In slums, refugee camps, in the rural countryside and other off-grid areas people struggle to warm babies with warm water bottles, blankets and other simple solutions. Reality stands in harsh contrast to the high-tech, high-resource clinical incubators we rely on, without hesitation, in Sweden, to keep our babies warm and protected from infections. (Less) - Popular Abstract
- With the brief of creating a solution for off-grid environments powered by solar cells, and the countless of solvable tasks existing in certain off-grid places I opted to looking at the highly populated areas of off-grid living and how the most basic needs are being met there. The meaning of off-grid is that a living space, house, or village, is self-sufficient. The living space isn’t connected to an electricity grid, to a sewage system or other similar public utilities.
To begin the research on this type of living I began with talking to a friend who has lived on the countryside outside of Gaborone in Botswana, where he and many off his friends and colleagues lived of-grid. Further discussions and research lead me onto designing the... (More) - With the brief of creating a solution for off-grid environments powered by solar cells, and the countless of solvable tasks existing in certain off-grid places I opted to looking at the highly populated areas of off-grid living and how the most basic needs are being met there. The meaning of off-grid is that a living space, house, or village, is self-sufficient. The living space isn’t connected to an electricity grid, to a sewage system or other similar public utilities.
To begin the research on this type of living I began with talking to a friend who has lived on the countryside outside of Gaborone in Botswana, where he and many off his friends and colleagues lived of-grid. Further discussions and research lead me onto designing the Moses-incubator. To fulfill a very basal need: surviving infancy.
Moses is a low-resource incubator, an affordable and efficient baby warmer that helps improve the quality of life for those living residentially in off-grid settings. There is an ongoing struggle, globally, of parents, mid-nurses, and doctors who encounter the same issue: How to keep a prematurely born baby alive and warm when there is no access to consistent electricity or protective healthcare equipment. In slums, refugee camps, in the rural countryside and other off-grid areas people struggle to warm babies with warm water bottles, blankets and other simple solutions. Reality stands in harsh contrast to the high-tech, high-resource clinical incubators we rely on, without hesitation, in Sweden, to keep our babies warm and protected from infections. (Less)
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- author
- Fast, Ellinor LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Moses - An off-grid solar powered baby incubator
- course
- IDEM05 20251
- year
- 2025
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Solar power, incubator, low-resource, baby warmer, industrial design, design, solar-powered, off-grid, grassroot, electricity, premature birth, infancy, infant mortality, infections
- report number
- LUT-DVIDE/EX--25/50725SE
- other publication id
- LUT-DVIDE/EX--25/50725SE
- language
- English
- id
- 9189478
- date added to LUP
- 2025-05-26 09:13:48
- date last changed
- 2025-05-26 09:13:48
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abstract = {{With the brief of creating a solution for off-grid environments powered by solar cells, and the countless of solvable tasks existing in certain off-grid places I opted to looking at the highly populated areas of off-grid living and how the most basic needs are being met there. The meaning of off-grid is that a living space, house, or village, is self-sufficient. The living space isn’t connected to an electricity grid, to a sewage system or other similar public utilities.
To begin the research on this type of living I began with talking to a friend who has lived on the countryside outside of Gaborone in Botswana, where he and many off his friends and colleagues lived of-grid. Further discussions and research lead me onto designing the Moses-incubator. To fulfill a very basal need: surviving infancy.
Moses is a low-resource incubator, an affordable and efficient baby warmer that helps improve the quality of life for those living residentially in off-grid settings. There is an ongoing struggle, globally, of parents, mid-nurses, and doctors who encounter the same issue: How to keep a prematurely born baby alive and warm when there is no access to consistent electricity or protective healthcare equipment. In slums, refugee camps, in the rural countryside and other off-grid areas people struggle to warm babies with warm water bottles, blankets and other simple solutions. Reality stands in harsh contrast to the high-tech, high-resource clinical incubators we rely on, without hesitation, in Sweden, to keep our babies warm and protected from infections.}},
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