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What is our challenge?

We face this project with the conviction that it will help others, especially those most in need. With the same size infrastructure of 40 foot containers, 4 floors with land, in a total floor area of ​​120 square meters. The production of each unit is continuous and the estimated availability of 15 liters of soybean sweet potato soup daily, roughly depending on the amount grown in the respective area for each day, equivalent to about 50 doses of 0.3 liters. , ready to eat in each unit.
We face this challenge with optimism and determination and conviction in the positive outcome of its achievement.

How is technology essential to this project?

Each unit has an automated system for:
• Cultivation, irrigation, sweet potato and soybean growth. The sweet potato was chosen for its excellent nutritional characteristics, pest resistance and for being the tuber that produces the most energy in the same space. Soy for its excellent protein quite complete with amino acids essential to humans.
• Watering maintenance, light management and breathing
. • Harvesting.
• Preparation of sweet potato and soy soup.
It is a project that needs to explore and use existing scientific resources in the area of ​​robotics, renewable energy, electronics, mechanics.
Solar panels, optimum illumination leds for plant growth, food processing system in the final product confection and further biological and technological research of the project.

How are manufacturing processes essential to this project?

Need technicians to build the structure and assemble the components. The construction of the prototype will require a pavilion and a technical office. For the construction of replicas will be a factory with assembly lines.

What are the short term goals and long term vision for this project?

In the short term get funding for the prototype, estimated the full study and completion of its manufacture in 2 years.
In the long run build a factory, make replicas of the prototype, distribute them in rich and profitable places, do more to distribute in poorer places on the planet, where you will not be charged for the doses. According to the business plan table, it will be close to 3 years after factory production.

How do we plan to deploy this project?

The machines will be placed in strategic locations in urban areas with the equivalent of 2 car parking spaces and preferably in a sunny location. These spaces are rented to the competent entities.

Current and future solution impact, scalability and social impact.

Nowadays hunger is a problem that is very present and around us is everywhere.
In an immediate sense the autonomous soybean sweet potato farm machine has a social impact on the basis of being a new, healthy, inexpensive and innovative food product in the way it is produced.
In fact the sweet potato is rich in carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, with the conjunction of soy rich in protein, it is intended to produce a soup with a pleasant taste and the essential properties for a very complete meal.
Its first target audience is the most developed countries with the highest economic capacity per capita.
All that is new is curious, it is a natural green product, adding to it a good flavor combined with excellent food properties, we believe it will have a positive impact on its initial marketing.
The construction of units to distribute in places where there are people who cannot afford will be made from the profits of units distributed in rich countries.

What are the current skills of the solution team?

The team has yet to be formed, as there are not enough funds yet to move the project forward to the next step which will be to investigate some of the things still under study that lack specialized staff in some areas; namely engineering: mechatronics, informatics and agronomists.

Solution Revenue Template

Units in rich countries will charge between € 1 and € 3 per dose, according to local business practices where each unit is placed. Thus it is expected that each unit will be paid between 150 to 400 days.
As you can see, the investment ratio is very good.
The profit of each machine in rich countries is to build new machines to give to the poor, and the main goal will be, not profit, but the most equitable distribution of staple food to the most deprived sites.
They are easily profitable in developed countries and are designed to cover basic food needs in underdeveloped countries, those with reduced or zero dose cost. It is an autonomous and economically viable project, which I believe is an asset to the well-being of many people.

Brief description of business idea:

The idea is to make machines that are almost self-sustaining, from agricultural products such as sweet potatoes and soybeans that are mixed in soup that will be the final product. Each machine is small in size making it easy to move and portable.
I consider it a lucrative project with benefits for both the producer and the customer.

Brief description of market demand to be met:

The objective is to spread each machine in places indicated to a target audience where there is a need for an energy-rich and effective food to be a complete meal, namely in the schools, filling stations; recreational places among others

Brief Description of Product / Service:

The final product consists of a pleasant-tasting sweet potato and soy soup.
Each serving will start at € 1 for 300mml, which comes in a reusable cup.

Brief description of the proposed innovation:

The innovation is the machine itself, which consists of a 4-storey sweetpotato and soybean greenhouse with acrylic sides. cultivation. It is weather resistant usual in the Iberian peninsula. Machine that generates doses of sweet potato soup with soy directly to the consumer.
The cultivation is autonomous, made with robot, renewable energy is used. Existing technologies are gathered as well as studies carried out.

Brief description of target market and potential competition:

The target market is the general public, competitors are finished food outlets as well as self-service food outlets, and in the case of the proposal in question the product is made from natural and fresh ingredients only. The machine is more profitable because it has almost spent none on logistics.

Brief description of the business model and value chain:

Each machine, after the prototype built, costs about 20,000 euros, so each machine produces about 50 daily doses of 3 deciliters over 1 euro, so each machine gets paid in about a year.

Brief description of the key milestones achieved so far and the next steps:

The project is under investigation. Find partnerships to promote the project, being the first step to build the prototype.