Nidec Corporation is a Japanese manufacturing company specializing in electric motors. It produces small precision motors as well as large industrial motors used in appliances, vehicles, and infrastructure. Nidec is testing solar-powered submersible pumping systems for irrigation in India to help farmers and reduce diesel consumption. Prototypes were installed in 2016 and connected to monitoring systems. The target market is India, Southwest Asia, the Middle East and Africa due to Nidec's high efficiency motors, pumps, inverters and IoT technologies suited for solar pumping applications.