A new concept for providing emergency wireless fidelity to areas come to by natural disaster has completed a successful trial in Puerto Rico . The organisation uses rubber duck - root on machine to produce what the developer are calling a “ ClusterDuck ” meshwork for disaster victims to link to .
It may sound like quackery , but this is a logical project second by IBM . Project Owl [ Organize , Whereabouts , Logistics ] received $ 200,000 after gain IBM ’s 2018Call for Codecompetition .
The Project Owl squad has developed minuscule rubber , rainproof , durable devices that , when deployed throughout an area , produce a mesh WLAN meshwork that transport an emergency brake qui vive to all mobile gadget in its parameter , instructing mass how to plug into to an emergency brake response portal . ( The devicesvaguely resemble rubber ducks . ) The connecting “ Papa Duck ” software shows the positioning of everyone logged on to the connection .
San Juan days after Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane MariaPhoto: Joe Raedle (Getty)
“ It does n’t have to be fancy , crazy military technology ; part of what makes a solution profound is being simple and creative . ” Project Owl Centennial State - founder Brian Knouse toldBloomberg . “ My Leslie Townes Hope is that we are able to set up internet networks quickly at a low cost and that they work . ”
Bloomberg reports that in March , Project Owl test the system of rules in area of Puerto Rico that were hit the intemperate during 2017 ’s Hurricane Maria . The squad used velcro to put the “ DuckLink ” gimmick on trees , gumption dunes , car , and balloon — creating a meshwork that spanned one straight mile .
Next , the team contrive to try the program in Houston , Texas — another metropolis that has been desolate by utmost weather in late years .
Under development, the devices take shape.Screenshot: (IBM Developers)
Project Owl hopes to have a working organisation ready for the U.S. east coast ’s hurricane time of year this summer . The IBM - owned Weather Company released ahurricane forecaston Monday that predicts there will be seven hurricane this season .
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