The winning developer solutions for Call for Code, an IBM-led initiative to provide technical assistance to people and communities in the wake of natural disasters, have been disclosed.
The winner of the $200,000 grand prize, Project OWL, which stands for "Organization, Whereabouts, and Logistics," is a two-part hardware/software solution. It provides an offline communication infrastructure that gives first responders a simple interface for managing all aspects of a disaster. The physical "clusterduck" network is made of hubs that create a mesh network that can send speech-based communications using conversational systems to a central application. This application, the OWL software incident management system, uses predictive analytics and multiple data sources to build a dashboard for first responders.
A summary of the top five finalist solutions can be found at https://developer.ibm.com/blogs/2018/10/22/top-5-call-for-code-solutions-unveiled.
For more information about Call for Code, visit https://callforcode.org.
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