Student Devises Solar Energy ECG Useful In Developing Countries And Troubled Areas

July 24, 2008

Electrotechnology student Felix Adamczyk has devised an ECG machine that runs on solar energy. This especially lends itself to use in developing countries or troubled areas. Adamczyk christened it “Kadiri”, which means “make possible” in the Tanzanian language Kiswahili.

Felix Adamczyk spawned the idea of building a solar EKG two years ago. At the time, he was concentrating intensively on Africa and had already built various technical devices. This prompted him to construct an EKG machine that can also be deployed successfully in developing countries. The requirements for such an EKG unit are conceivably simple, as Felix Adamczyk was soon to discover when he consulted a company in Tanzania that specializes in medical technology: “It should be robust, affordable and energy-efficient”, he explains. It does not make any sense to buy medical equipment from industrial nations and send them to developing countries. “You have to adapt the apparatus to suit the local conditions”, Adamczyk stresses.

Experience gathered in Africa

Felix Adamczyk demonstrating his solar ECG on a live model. (Credit: Image courtesy of ETH Zurich/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

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