E-ROW project is focusing on inland waterways transportation by using tide / stream to recharge electric boat, surrounding modules etc. The turbine give an output from 2KWH, 20KWH up to 500KWH Tide turbine have the lowest carbon foot print compare to solar panels, wind turbines etc. It is also very easy to estimate how much power will generate the turbine even 10 years from now.

 

Recycling existing infrastructure, boats pontoons etc is one of the key. For example SOTRA operate in the laguna d'Ebrie, Cote d'Ivoire, using old boat and infrastructures where 300000 users commute daily. 30% of passengers are using small boats ( called pinasse ) runs by entrepreneurs. The pinasse owners can be on the target due to smaller amount to deploy E-ROW solution.The pontoon can be used as a HUB for recharging any electric devices, car, computers etc

Soon, access and high price of fossils energies will hit hard the logistic market espiaccily in Africa where it takes sometimes weeks to obtain diesel.

This is a short example on a million miles navigable waterways worldwide

 

Using Cardano as an additional module will :

 

• Secure investor by avoiding cash
• Track number of users
• Reward the entrepreneurs and end users
• Give the first step for blockchain into inland transportations

Using Cardano will simply connect both parties and make payment easy, cheap and quick between franchises and the E-ROW Corp ( Switzerland based).

To deploy this project you will find below the different stages :

• Finalize the government grant with the French Treasury and the REPIC Switzerland ( 3 months already working with them )

• Analyze the environment to set up the turbine, engine swap and entrepreneur training ( 2 months )

• Organize the payment method using CARDANO as a standard for purchasing ticket, franchising fees. Mobile payment is already in the mindset locally ( 2 weeks )

• Connecting the smart pontoon to the Cardano network ( don't know how long it gonna take yet…)

 

It will take approximately 6 months to set up the entire project 2 months more for larger project.

The objective for E-ROW is to focus public transportation such as SOTRA etc but smaller project for 20 PAX boats is underway and easier to finance with huge amount spent on green projects.

Using ADA to replace the CFA Franc can be a tricky especially for us due to financial regulation but using it as a token and franchisee fees is much easier at this time.

To dig deeper into blockchain, we are in contact with SMART AFRICA specialized in telecommunications ( and others activities) all around Africa with Key person to set up our transaction modele. They have already a great knowledge with mobile payment and infrastructure.

Also working with SA will simply the organisation of this payment also using their engineers to set up this type of payment. Working with African corporate is a must.

The amount requested will be used primarily for human resources and a smaller portion for hard ware around 80/20%

Once the first projects on, we can deploy to other countries with the help of the African bank for development. We can easily have for the first 6 months 50K persons using our service monthly and increase 30%-40% every months.

This Project is manage by Frédéric Olenczak,studied multimodal river transport at the university and worked in different companies such as public river transport in Bordeaux with their hybrid catamaran.

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