Innovation award : the mosquito-repelling terminal

Innovation award: the mosquito-repelling terminal

EVRY GIBELIN IS ONE OF THE THREE WINNERS OF THE 2016 INNOVATION AWARDS FOR HIS SALES AND DISTRIBUTION PROJECT FOR MOSQUITO-REPELLING TERMINALS.

DJ and audiovisual contract performer, Evry Gibelin was the third recipient of the 2016 Innovation Awards organized by initiative Saint-Martin Active. Indeed, he created a sales and distribution company for mosquito-repelling terminals."When Initiative Saint-Martin signed me up, I didn’t think I’d win. It is encouraging to see that people believe in this project and deem it necessary" he said humbly.

Having returned to Camargue, where he was born, for the first time in ten years last summer, he discovered mosquito-repelling terminals for the first time on the TV news. The invention of a Provencial company was tested by a research center. According to this test, the eradication rate of black and tiger mosquitoes reached 73 to 88%. "I immediately said to myself that this would be vital for us in Saint-Martin," he remembered. "A few days later I was in their offices".

The idea is simple. According to several scientific studies, mosquitoes are attracted by the carbon dioxide that we release as well as the smell of our skin. The mosquito-repelling terminal therefore contains a bottle of non-polluting, CO2 (used for food processing purposes) and two cartridges for different pheromones in order to target both black mosquitoes and tiger mosquitoes. When they arrive in mass around the terminal they are sucked in and then captured in a net. They then die from dehydration. An ecological system since only the fan consumes electricity (12V). The terminals must be placed outside and their range is a 60-meter radius. Covering a total surface area of almost an acre, they create a barrier to keep these insects from entering your home.

Still in the process of starting up, Evry Gibelin’s company should be fully operational within two months at the most. His goal is to distribute the terminals all over the Caribbean and the United States from Saint-Martin. He plans to import the products to the mainland but adapt the packaging to make it "more high-tech, more design" and thus target a higher class. He plans to use different materials such as seawood and even white plexiglass in order to include a retro-colored lighting system, or adapt it to the advertising totems as well as to the LED lamps outside. For the time being, he has already solicited the large hotels and villas in Guadeloupe, Martinique as well as Saint-Martin. And plans to contact the co-ownership management agents of the island and the DIY stores. He asked for help from a few health organizations and said that he hasn’t received any answers so far. For individuals, the cost of the basic model (without an hourly programmer) comes to approximately  €1,000.00 (sales tax and shipping included). A price that he would like to reduce by  €200.00 € by simply importing the system without a casing and by manufacturing the package design. Although he’s not the inventor of the product, his innovation consists in providing a technology and adapting it to the territory, in order to provide a solution to a public health issue, as well as to create jobs (sales reps and technicians for maintenance).