| | 123 | = [http://www.sharedsolar.org/ Shared Solar] = |
| | 124 | |
| | 125 | [http://www.sharedsolar.org/ Shared Solar] is a rural electrification |
| | 126 | project providing over 3000 people with electricity in sub-Saharan |
| | 127 | Africa (Mali and Uganda) with proposed deployments in Kenya and Haiti. |
| | 128 | Due to the nature of the physical environments, and the model of |
| | 129 | distributed generation, we need to have local intelligence at our |
| | 130 | sites for the distribution of prepaid electricity and management of |
| | 131 | the deployed infrastructure. |
| | 132 | |
| | 133 | This distributed/local intelligence is built using Twisted. Twisted |
| | 134 | has helped me prototype and deploy rapidly, learn and react quickly to |
| | 135 | on-the-ground issues as they arise, and adapt the service to |
| | 136 | configurations using different hardware and protocols. Without the |
| | 137 | services built around Twisted, I'm certain the project would not be as |
| | 138 | successful - it has helped us turn otherwise static infrastructure |
| | 139 | into something much more in very short time. |
| | 140 | |
| | 141 | Huge thanks to the Twisted community for their great work and making |
| | 142 | this possible. I'd also like to acknowledge the wonderful support by |
| | 143 | the folks on irc:#twisted. |
| | 144 | |
| | 145 | -- Rajesh Menon, Software Engineer, SharedSolar |
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