Providing Vaccines to Thousands in Need

Our Mission

Unfortunate Fact: Vaccines are very delicate, and they spoil easily. Even though vaccines are inexpensive and plentiful, they must be refrigerated. Since typical refrigerators are costly and bulky power guzzlers that require constant electricity, billions of people around the world are not vaccinated because they lack access to electricity or a stable electric grid necessary to store and administer vaccines. Between 2010 and 2018, over 20 million children in rural villages could not receive the measles vaccine because of this “Last Mile” problem.

That’s where the SVCooler comes in. Powered by solar panels, the SVCooler uses a smart temperature control algorithm to maximize efficiency and keep vaccines frosty even without connection to power.


At SVCooler, our mission is threefold:

Develop

Develop a low cost, solar-powered vaccine refrigerator that uses a smart algorithm to keep vaccines and other medicine refrigerated

Deploy

Deploy and field test in the Philippines, Cambodia, Indonesia, Rwanda

Donate

Raise donations to buy vaccines for 100,000 children in need

Prototype Progression

  • First Ideation

    Initial Prototype Design

    This was the first finalized prototype design to be built

  • V3

    Current Design in Deployment

    This is the design that is currently deployed in Barangay Health Station in Manila, Phillipines.

  • V4

    Current Prototype Under Design

    Currently in development, this prototype will imrpove on weight and cost as well as efficiency of previous designs

What are we?

The Solar Vaccine Cooler is a smart cooler that efficiently refrigerates vaccines using the power of the sun. It runs in areas without stable power grids, providing vaccines a place to be stored long term in these areas.

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Our Team

Leo Li - Research, Development & Testing, Website Construction

Aidan Chen - Development

Jonathan Du - Research & Development

Christopher Zhang - Research & Development