There’s been a major tool in recent decades in limiting fatalities and greater property damage when it comes to natural disasters and extreme weather, including the soaring temperatures that have cooked the U.S. and parts of the world this summer.
For one company, Helium Network, and its nonprofit arm, Helium Foundation, decentralizing a global wireless network, keeping costs to users to a minimum, and engaging with companies and the power of the Internet of Things to capture and share data that can improve, and even save, lives is an all-important step in making communities and their citizens better prepared for what climate change may deliver next.
The partnership couldn’t happen soon enough. Multiple regions across the world faced extreme conditions over the weekend, with record-breaking rainfall causing massive floods in Nova Scotia, Canada, and thousands of tourists evacuated in Greece due to wildfires. In the U.S., the death toll for the latest heat wave is on the rise. What’s more, the extreme heat cooking much of the U.S.
Helium operates on a LoRaWAN protocol that is based on the LoRa radio modulation method and is a low-power wide-area networking protocol. LoRaWan manages communication between end-node IoT devices and network gateways and connects devices to the internet via wireless connections.