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Working with local villagers and global experts, Reacción, a team of El Salvadorian experts in electronics, community development and disaster relief, developed an IoT-based early warning system for disasters that has gone global. Villagers can escape mudslides and floods with a system that is battery powered, rugged, affordable and can be used without formal education.
Floods in Honduras are dangerous, but a new early warning system designed by DAI is helping families evacuate earlier. The Hidrosónico project uses sonar sensors mounted to bridges to measure the water level below, enabling local firms to build an economical IoT warning system themselves and help protect more communities from floods.
"ICT can help prevent problems from turning into disasters that impede sustainable development", said Mbika Mbika, deputy minister of communications at an International Telecommunications Union forum in Lusaka last week....
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