Hyderabad school student invents low-cost weather receiver 'SummitSathi' for off-grid Himalayan hamlets

Hyderabad, Oct 22 (UNI) Aagam Jain, a 12th-grade student at Indus International School, Hyderabad, has designed and developed 'SummitSathi', a low-cost, off-grid satellite weather receiver engineered to fetch real-time cloud imagery directly from passing meteorological satellites without requiring internet or cellular connectivity. The low-cost satellite weather receiver that brings cloud images directly from weather satellites to remote Himalayan villages without requiring internet or mobile connectivity. The disaster-mitigation device is being deployed across 10 vulnerable villages in the Seraj valley of Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district, catering to an estimated population of over 1,000 residents across three receiving stations. Built using accessible…