INDIGENOUS IDEAS

TEKswitch hopes to look critically at technology, especially those coming from Africa, when we say Africa we mean Africa as a continent of 54 countries, as against what Europeans and Americans see Africa as (that's a story for another post) . we will pay attention on Nigerian indigenous technology, while we try to capture some ideas from other parts of Africa.

There are so many technological ideas that has emanated from Nigeria in recent history but most of these works are not giving the publicity they deserve, most of them end up as mere ideas, some have been buried as just research works because of lack of funds or government policies,some others have managed to find themselves in the shelves of Nigerian market but has low patronage because "made in Nigeria" is still an anathema to many. 

At TEKswitch we hope to advertise, analyse, and criticize these works, as the case may be, with a view to bringing them to the lime light, giving them the exposure they require.

Epileptic power supply is a major challenge in Nigeria, generators are the only alternative and running generators come at a cost,most times when one is running on generator and light is restored,the generator still keeps running for hours and when you finally shut it down, you still need to manually change over to public power supply; some group of electrical engineers in a government establishment, SEDI-ENUGU (Scientific Equipment Development Institute) set out to research on how to produce a device that will not only shut down the generator once power is restored but to also automatically change over immediately without power going off . after a series of research, they came up with the product called UFACOS (User Friendly Automatic Change Over Switch). Now what it does is to automatically change over from generator to public source of power when power is restored, and it switches your generator off for you at the same time. Technical information about this product will be made available in a future post. UFACOS has gone through several years of testing, and its finally being rolled out to the public.