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SA's Lumkani installs shack fire early-warning systems in an additional 20k homes - Dis... - 0 views

  • South African startup Lumkani has installed its early warning fire detection system in an additional 20,000 homes across the country, meaning it has now equipped 40,000 high fire risk homes in several of the country’s informal settlements.
    • tahaemsd
       
      Lumkani installs shack fire early warning systems
kenzabenessalah

Lumkani - 0 views

  • As part of Lumkani’s mission to mitigate the loss of life and property caused by fires in South Africa and across the globe, we implement large scale roll-outs of our fire detection system into urban informal settlements and townships.
    • kenzabenessalah
       
      Before Lumkani was introduced, there was very little hope for people to rebuild their houses when fire erupted. Making this business known could help save plenty of lives.
    • kenzabenessalah
       
      Before Lumkani was introduced, there was very little hope for people to rebuild their houses when fire erupted. Making this business known could help save plenty of lives.
  • Before Lumkani introduced Fire Cover in 2016, there was little hope for households and businesses that had been excluded from insurance cover, to quickly rebuild, refurnish and return to a state of dignity.
    • kenzabenessalah
       
      This excerpt is important because it highlights how beneficial and essential the concept of the company is. It helped protect people's homes and reassure them that their households would return to their original state.
  • For only R60 per month, you get: A Lumkani Fire Alarm that warns you when fire breaks out. Cover for your home or business structure and all of your belongings/stock for up to R40,000 provided by Hollard. There is no waiting period, you are protected immediately after your first payment.Foreign Nationals may apply.No documentation required to apply..properties we protect: Informal homes Small homes and low-cost homes (RDPs) Small businesses
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      Details of what is covered by the LUMKANI company
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  • Lumkani is a technology company which distributes insurance products to financially excluded households and businesses in townships and informal settlements. We use our award-winning fire detectors to mitigate the risk of fires and a world-first insurance product to cover losses when disasters occur. We have distributed tens of thousands of fire alarms to homes across South Africa which have drastically lowered the instances of fires in our communities, ensuring that those who are most vulnerable have a sense of security. Tens of millions of Rands of possible fire damage have been saved through our early-warning fire detectors.
    • aminej
       
      I think that this is an excellent idea since it will help many people in rural areas who very often suffer from losses due to weather or natural disasters and also a very weak infrastructure. It will also bring more unbanked people to learn about different services of insurance and finance.
  • Fires destroy homes, belongings and businesses which leads to personal and financial insecurity. We provide protection against fires to informal homes, small homes, RDPs and small businesses
    • kenzabenessalah
       
      Having such a concept is essential to the community because it deals with one of most popular issues in the world; financial insecurity
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    LUMKANI launched indeed a networked heat detector to protect people's properties.
tahaemsd

Start-up Spotlight: Shack fire early-warning systems save lives - EE Publishers - 0 views

  • Lumkani has always had the dream of making communities more resilient to the devastation of shack fires. Having the opportunity to cover an additional 20 000 South African homes with our early warning system has been a big step towards realising this,” says Francois Petousis, Director of Humanitarian Projects at Lumkani. “Every week we hear stories of people who have heard our fire alarms ringing in a neighbourhood, or have received our SMS saying that their house is on fire which has helped them to race home to put out a small fire before it caused any damage. That is huge motivation for us to reach even more homes across our country.”
    • tahaemsd
       
      this sytem creates a community -wide alert in the early phases of a fire and then send text messages to all residents
kenzabenessalah

Lumkani - Early Warning Fire Detection System | Engineering For Change - 0 views

  • Lumkani is a small fire alarm that registers the rate at which heat rises within a small residence indicating when there might be a fire risk. It then connects with neighboring devices, setting off a chain of alarms so that neighbors can intervene. Newer versions also communicate with home owners via SMS, as well as with local emergency services.
    • kenzabenessalah
       
      Lumkani has updated its system according to advanced technology. For example, nowadays, they send alarms via SMS.
kenzabenessalah

Lumkani (Pty) Ltd | Research Contracts and Innovation - 0 views

  • Lumkani is commercialising an early-warning system to reduce the damage and destruction caused by the spread of shack fires in urban informal settlements. Many cooking, lighting and heating methods used by people living in informal settlements produce smoke.
    • kenzabenessalah
       
      It's important for people to stop using certain cooking utensils because they can also cause fires.
tahaemsd

WDO | Lumkani - 0 views

  • The device detects fires by sensing for a rate of rise of temperature, rather than smoke, which would cause many false alarms. In the event of a fire, the detectors communicate to one another by means of radio frequency (RF) to create a community wide alert – the alert is transmitted to neighbouring detectors within a 60m radius of the fire, giving the community at large the necessary advanced warning to deal with the fire before it becomes unmanageable.
    • kenzabenessalah
       
      It's interesting to know that the device detects fire alarms not by smoke but by the rise of temperature. This could prevent many false alarms from happening.
  • Lumkani has created the world’s first networked heat-detector designed specifically for informal settlements. Lumkani’s heat detector addresses the devastation caused by the spread of fires in urban slums, by creating a community wide early warning.
    • tahaemsd
       
      This device detects fires by sensing for a rate of rise of temperature, rather than smoke.
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SA's Lumkani closes seed funding round from Accion, 4Di - 0 views

  • South African startup Lumkani, which addresses the challenge of fire safety in informal settlements through a combination of early-warning fire detection technology and financial services, has closed a seed funding round to provide insurance coverage to low-income consumers.
    • tahaemsd
       
      providing south africans who are living in informal settlements access to financial services that have previously not been on the market.
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Lumkani Fire Detection - 0 views

  • The device is a heat detector and not an ill-suited smoke detector. In a fire situation, the device will ring alerting the family inside enabling them to be proactive before the fire becomes unmanageable. After 20 seconds the device transmits a signal to all devices in neighbouring homes up to 60 metres away creating a community-wide response to the fire
    • kenzabenessalah
       
      The device not only informs families who are affected, but a signal is sent to the entire neighborhood which I think is a great initiative.
    • kenza_abdelhaq
       
      The device is efficient and has a fast response time as it takes only 20 seconds to alert the whole neighborhood of the fire to create a community-wide response.
  • We have 7000 low-income informal households benefiting from our networked fire technology. Approximately 30 000 people are protected by our technology each day across South Africa's largest cities and rural communities.
    • kenza_abdelhaq
       
      The growing numbers of households and people protected thanks to the device.
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    "Lumkani has built the world's 1st off-the-shelf, networked early warning device & system designed for people living in dense urban slums.The device is a heat detector and not an ill-suited smoke detector. In a fire situation, the device will ring alerting the family inside enabling them to be proactive before the fire becomes unmanageable. After 20 seconds the device transmits a signal to all devices in neighbouring homes up to 60 metres away creating a community-wide response to the fire"
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No cash needed using South Africa's SnapScan - 0 views

  • During the interview, Ehlers provided some personal insights regarding difficulties facing today’s entrepreneurs. “For me the hardest part was realising a company has been built that a lot of people work for and depend on, and if serious mistakes are made, you and your whole team could be without any kind of job security, without any kind of safety net – and the whole show just ends tomorrow.” Even in light of SnapScan’s success, Ehlers still warns of the idolisation of ideas. “What comes to mind first is to really not over-value your idea. Ideas are important, absolutely, they inspire us, they drive us to experience something. But ideas aren’t always special, you have a lot of them every day. “The really hard part is turning that idea into a reality. Ideas aren’t absolute, they require analysis and change to eventually find something that really works.”
    • mbellakbail69
       
      I agree that people need to understand where they are and what their strengths are and to play with this. Every day there are fantastic things from Africa. People must avoid underestimating the continent's advantages.
tahaemsd

Product Insights at Lumkani jobs - Via - 0 views

  • Lumkani is a social enterprise that seeks to address the challenge of shack/slum fires in urban informal settlements in South Africa and across the globe. Lumkani aims to create social impact in two ways. Firstly by increasing the safety and security of people living in informal settlements with technology-based early-warning systems, and secondly with affordable relevant financial services products, such as our Lumkani short term fire insurance for informal homes.
    • tahaemsd
       
      this is creating high value in urban slums
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