BRCK, a battery-backed connectivity router
BRCK, router de conectividad con batería
- Date
- 2013 · confidence high
- Place
- Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
- Credited to
- Erik Hersman, Juliana Rotich, Reg Orton and Philip Walton (BRCK, Ushahidi)
- Field
- Communication
What it is
A rugged router with an eight-hour battery and switching between Ethernet, wifi, 3G/4G and SIM that keeps connectivity during power cuts. It was designed in Nairobi for African infrastructure conditions.
Funded by a Kickstarter campaign in 2013. It emerged from Ushahidi and the iHub community in Nairobi.
What it led to
- schools and businesses connected on networks with unstable power
- the Kio Kit education platform (2015)
- an African hardware ecosystem (iHub, Gearbox)