Stopping a Wildfire with a Low-Cost Sensor Network
4 Dec 2018 1:30 PM GMT
Three twenty-somethings?one from Ecuador, one from France, and one from India?teamed up in Silicon Valley to tackle the challenge of spotting a wildfire before it gets out of control
- Team Lali, part of the Hacking House ’s first class of would be entrepreneurs, had a solution—a low cost wireless sensor network—looking for a problem.
- I met with Sucre Cando, from Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Nassim Bettach, from Lyon, France, in Fremont, Calif., in November.
- The two came to Silicon Valley as part of the first class of Hacking House .
- SigFox eventually plans to establish 50 Hacking Houses around the world; the second, in Taipei, will welcome its first class in the first quarter of 2019.
- Cando and Bettach arrived in California near the end of August, quickly forming a team of three with Jay Nagdeo, who hails from Nagpur, India.
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