Featured here is an application which won the Grand Prize in the Emerging Markets category in the Nokia Calling All Innovators (www.callingallinnovators.com) contest in 2008. <br /><br />This application, named Nanao Ganesh, allows farmers in India to establish remote contact with distant, modem-equipped electric irrigation pumps, to check on power supply and pump operation without the need to travel long distances. <br /><br />It does it through voice call initiated through even the very basic Nokia phones such as Nokia 1100. Through this call farmers can control the starter panel of the pumps through a special modem which interfaces with 440 volt starter switches.
