Samsung Advanced Technology Research Institute (SAIT), the R&D department of Samsung Electronics, began to develop this toilet in 20 19 in response to the "toilet reconstruction challenge" initiated by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The department recently completed the development of the core technology of the toilet, and successfully developed and tested the prototype.
The prototype of the institute was unveiled at a ceremony held in its building in Shui Yuan, South Korea. JinGyo-young, President and Head of SAIT, DoulayeKone, Deputy Director of Water, Sanitation and Health Department of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, SunKim, Senior Project Officer of Water, Sanitation and Health Department, and SAIT researchers involved in the project attended the ceremony.
▲ On August 16, Li _ (left), vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, shook hands with Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, at a meeting in Seoul.
Li, Vice Chairman of Samsung Electronics, met with Bill Gates, Co-Chairman of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on August 16 to discuss the achievements of the toilet renovation project and exchange views on global social contribution initiatives. During the meeting, Bill Gates shared the charitable vision and ongoing initiatives of the Foundation, and Li said that he would devote himself to using Samsung's technology to help solve the challenges facing mankind.
Samsung plans to provide royalty-free licenses for patents related to this project to developing countries in the commercialization stage. Samsung will also continue to provide close consultation to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help promote technology to mass production. After making the design more effective for mass production, the two organizations will work together to find industry partners who are willing to commercialize the technology.
During the three-year research and development process, SAIT devoted itself to basic design, component development and modular technology, and finally successfully developed a toilet prototype for home use. The product has the ability of energy saving and sewage treatment, which meets the performance requirements of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for commercialization of household toilet renovation.
The core technologies developed by Samsung include heat treatment and biological treatment to kill pathogens in human excrement and make the discharged sewage and solids safe to the environment. The system can completely recycle the treated water. Solid waste is dehydrated, dried and burned into ash, while liquid waste is biologically purified.
20 1 1 launched the "toilet renovation challenge", which is an initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, aiming at developing innovative toilet technology that can safely and effectively manage human excreta.
According to the data of the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund, about 3.6 billion people around the world are forced to use unsafe sanitation facilities, resulting in 500,000 children under the age of 5 dying of diarrhea caused by limited safe water and sanitation facilities.