Let us hit the ground running, by considering a frugal innovation already being pursued for implementation. Weather monitoring has many advantages, in the short-term and local scale, and in the long-term and global scale. However, the traditional technologies are still quite expensive and require special expertise to maintain.

So let’s learn in the following lecture how frugal innovation allows for weather monitoring stations to be deployed across sub-Saharan Africa. In this case, both technical mechanisms and service processes are dealt with in novel ways to allow for successful deployment.