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CTOnews.com, August 26 (Xinhua)-- Samsung Electronics has worked with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a safe prototype toilet designed for home use.

CTOnews.com learned that Samsung Electronics' research and development arm, the Samsung Institute of Advanced Technology (SAIT), began developing the toilet in 2019 in response to the "toilet reengineering challenge" launched by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The department recently completed the development of toilet core technology and successfully developed and tested a prototype.

The Institute unveiled the prototype at a ceremony at its building in Suwon, South Korea, attended by Jin Gyo-young, President and Director of SAIT, Doulaye Kone, Deputy Director of the Water, Environmental Sanitation and Health Department of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Sun Kim, Senior Program Officer of the Ministry of Environmental Health and Health, as well as SAIT researchers involved in the project.

Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong (left) shakes hands with Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, at a meeting in Seoul on Aug. 16, ▲.

Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, met with Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on August 16 to discuss the results of the toilet remodeling project and exchange views on the Global Social contribution Initiative. During the meeting, Bill Gates shared the foundation's philanthropic vision and ongoing initiatives, and Lee Jae-yong said he was committed to using Samsung's technology to help solve human challenges.

Samsung plans to provide royalty-free licenses for patents related to the project to developing countries during the commercialization phase. Samsung will also continue to provide close advice to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help bring technology to mass production. After making the design more effective for mass production, the two organizations will work together to find industry partners willing to commercialize the technology.

During three years of research and development, SAIT devoted itself to basic design, developed components and modular technology, and finally successfully developed a toilet prototype for home use. The product has energy saving and sewage treatment capacity, and meets the performance requirements of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the commercialization of household reinvention toilets.

Core technologies developed by Samsung include heat treatment and biological treatment to kill pathogens in human excreta and to make discharged sewage and solids environmentally safe. The system enables the treated water to be completely recycled. Solid waste is dehydrated, dried and burned to ashes, while liquid waste is treated through a biological purification process.

The toilet Reengineering Challenge, launched in 2011, is an initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop transformative toilet technologies that can safely and effectively manage human waste.

According to the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund, about 3.6 billion people worldwide are forced to use unsafe sanitation facilities, resulting in 500000 children under the age of five dying each year from diarrhoea caused by safe water and limited sanitation.

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