Impact Beyond Innovation: How Lumkani’s fire detection system is saving lives

Impact Beyond Innovation is an article series that features startups from Africa putting social good at the forefront of their business models.

In 2013, co-founder of Lumkani Francois Petousis’ thesis research was taken forward in light of a massive fire in the BM section of Khayelitsha that left over 4 000 people homeless.

Petousis and UCT engineering lecturer Samuel Ginsberg then knew the project they were working on could have a massive potential impact. Not just in South Africa but in any dense township areas across the globe. Soon they were joined by Paul Mesarcik, David Gluckman, Max Basle and Emily Vining who are Lumkani’s project management and community engagement directors.

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