Active and Mobile individuals including military personnel
a) Description
This segment includes people who are active and on the go. These are backpackers, hikers, sportspeople and campers.
The water products used by this segment are; less than 2 liter non disposable water bottles, backpack reservoirs, and thermoses.
Backpack Water Reservoir
Non-Disposable Water Bottle
Igloo
a) What the Consumers in This Segment Want
They require water solutions that can make available safe water from any source and to keep safe water from going bad, recontamination. In addition, the solution has to have long lasting effectiveness, fast acting, environmentally friendly and competitively priced, not necessarily the lowest price relative to other solutions.
b) Which SFB Products are appropriate for this Segment and How are they Used
The SFB products used for this segment are; T-Bags for the bottles and reservoirs and SFB pads for water storage using thermoses.
In water bottles, the T-Bag is placed in the bottle, the bottle is shaken for 15 seconds, then left to sit for 20 minutes. The water will be ready to drink.
In reservoirs, the T-Bag is placed in the reservoir. The T-Bag will be performing the pathogen kill while the reservoir is in motion with the carrier, the backpacker.
The military use of the bottles and reservoirs is the same as described above.
The other option for SFB products to be used in bottle and reservoirs is to be built-in to the bottle or reservoir as a cartridge.
In Thermoses, the SFB pad will be dropped into the thermos and the motion and time the pad is in the thermos will create the safe water and/or prohibit recontamination of the water with bacteria and/or viruses.
In al use cases, to maintain the SFB product for reuse, it will be periodically removed from the bottle or reservoir, immersed in an acidic water base solution for 1-3 hours. The SFB product will be ready for reuse again, as good as new.
c) Support Requirements
We envision the support to mostly be making modifications to the SFB product to fit into new bottle, reservoir and thermos designs which our partner customers will be introducing as part of their product evolution and roadmap. This type of product derivative we can support without difficulty since most of the modifications will involve different weights and sizes of the SFB material.
Water-In-Transit (WIT) and Water Storage for households
a) Description
In the developing and underdeveloped countries of the GS, water delivery systems and infrastructure are rare and in some case non-existing. Family members, usually women and children, walk for hours sometimes to reach the water source, i.e. a well or surface water, fill a container with water from that source and carry it back home. This is Water-in-Transit (WIT) a natural opportunity for our SFB technology. It is very prevalent in much of Africa, South Asia, India and Latin America.
The most common containers used to carry water are 20 liter Jerrycans, buckets made from clay or plastic, 15 liter buckets from Oxfam and 92 liter Hippo Rollers (this is wheel barrow like device that is filled with water and then rolled to its destination and is widely used in South Africa.)
Once the water is brought home, the matter of preventing recontamination of the water while being stored becomes the critical task.
Applications
a) Description
This segment includes people who are active and on the go. These are backpackers, hikers, sportspeople and campers.
The water products used by this segment are; less than 2 liter non disposable water bottles, backpack reservoirs, and thermoses.
Backpack Water Reservoir
Non-Disposable Water Bottle
Igloo
a) What the Consumers in This Segment Want
They require water solutions that can make available safe water from any source and to keep safe water from going bad, recontamination. In addition, the solution has to have long lasting effectiveness, fast acting, environmentally friendly and competitively priced, not necessarily the lowest price relative to other solutions.
b) Which SFB Products are appropriate for this Segment and How are they Used
The SFB products used for this segment are; T-Bags for the bottles and reservoirs and SFB pads for water storage using thermoses.
In water bottles, the T-Bag is placed in the bottle, the bottle is shaken for 15 seconds, then left to sit for 20 minutes. The water will be ready to drink.
In reservoirs, the T-Bag is placed in the reservoir. The T-Bag will be performing the pathogen kill while the reservoir is in motion with the carrier, the backpacker.
The military use of the bottles and reservoirs is the same as described above.
The other option for SFB products to be used in bottle and reservoirs is to be built-in to the bottle or reservoir as a cartridge.
In Thermoses, the SFB pad will be dropped into the thermos and the motion and time the pad is in the thermos will create the safe water and/or prohibit recontamination of the water with bacteria and/or viruses.
In al use cases, to maintain the SFB product for reuse, it will be periodically removed from the bottle or reservoir, immersed in an acidic water base solution for 1-3 hours. The SFB product will be ready for reuse again, as good as new.
c) Support Requirements
We envision the support to mostly be making modifications to the SFB product to fit into new bottle, reservoir and thermos designs which our partner customers will be introducing as part of their product evolution and roadmap. This type of product derivative we can support without difficulty since most of the modifications will involve different weights and sizes of the SFB material.
a) Description
In the developing and underdeveloped countries of the GS, water delivery systems and infrastructure are rare and in some case non-existing. Family members, usually women and children, walk for hours sometimes to reach the water source, i.e. a well or surface water, fill a container with water from that source and carry it back home. This is Water-in-Transit (WIT) a natural opportunity for our SFB technology. It is very prevalent in much of Africa, South Asia, India and Latin America.
The most common containers used to carry water are 20 liter Jerrycans, buckets made from clay or plastic, 15 liter buckets from Oxfam and 92 liter Hippo Rollers (this is wheel barrow like device that is filled with water and then rolled to its destination and is widely used in South Africa.)
Once the water is brought home, the matter of preventing recontamination of the water while being stored becomes the critical task.
Hippo Roller
Jerry Can