Over the next few years, if you travel to the interiors of Maharashtra and other states in the country, you’re most likely to find yourself in a queue outside an ATM even in a village sans electricity. The automated voice in the ATM may surprise you by speaking in the local language — but that’s just the beginning. It will provide transaction receipts in the local language, too, all while running on solar power.

A solar ATM set up by Vortex Engineering in a village in south India.