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Connectivity (phones, internet, email, etc.) underpins our society, our communication and everyday life. Network infrastructure around the world is not only complicated and expensive, its complexity renders it vulnerable to disaster (hurricanes, wildfires), technical problems, cost, and attack.
OWL brings hardware and software together. Simple wireless devices establish malleable information networks and software enables us to use them.
Hurricanes, flooding, earthquakes, wildfires, and other natural disasters are a constant threat around the world. Disaster response is a complex logistical task made more difficult without the infrastructure we are used to in our daily lives.
OWL supports disaster resilience and response through cost effective, easy to use, and rapidly deployable wireless communications infrastructure that can provide first responders critical networking capacity.
OWL for Disaster Response
Governments are tasked in the largest and most complex response efforts from both natural and man-made disasters. In these scenarios, interoperable sensor and communications networks facilitate information gathering to support large-scale operations.
Project OWL supports government and military organizations with customizable networking technology at sea, in the air, or on land.
OWL for government
Conferences, sports events, concerts, and gatherings present a different challenge to traditional infrastructure. The density of connectivity in these scenarios can overload systems and the result is an experience as if a disaster had cut off power even when it had not.
Project OWL supports connectivity dense events with rapidly scalable networking that integrates with all of your consumer electronics.
OWL for Events
Industrial energy, petroleum, and manufacturing companies are looking to innovate to remain competitive in a technologically-driven business landscape. Legacy systems are in remote environments, prohibitively expensive, and hard to monitor oceans away.
OWL supports industrials with cost-effective sensing networks for a more efficient supply chain and operations.
OWL for Industrial
Manage networks with the OWL Data Management System (DMS) in the cloud. This system provides simple mapping and informational tools to maintain awareness of all activity on your network.
Learn MoreA simple device, quick to deploy. The DuckLink connects to almost all consumer electronics and clusters with other DuckLinks to form the ClusterDuck network.
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"a handful of computer nerds developed a new way to help in natural disasters"
"Judges including President Bill Clinton selected OWL from 100,000 developers"
"The specialized rubber devices will land in Puerto Rico this March"
"It may sound like quackery, but this is a legitimate project backed by IBM"
"When a hurricane blows out your internet, a drone can drop an instant Wi-Fi network"
The IBM Call for Code is a global hackathon focused on innovative technology that makes a positive impact. From 100,000 developers and over 156 nations, OWL was selected as the 2018 Global Grand Prize Winner.
Read MoreThe SpaceDuck is a custom build communications device that uses Open Source firmware and custom-built hardware. This device is being used to research how project OWL can bring cheap and simple communication devices to areas affected by natural disasters.
Watch a brief documentary on the first deployment of Project OWL in Puerto Rico, March 2019
Linus Tech Tips
Overview of Project OWL
October 2019 deployment of our Solarducks at the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez
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