Louisville recently implemented an innovative pilot focusing on smoke alarms in vacant buildings with help from an unconventional source – hackers!
Louisville recently implemented an innovative pilot focusing on smoke alarms in vacant buildings with help from an unconventional source – hackers! Louisville's Innovation Delivery Team, with support from different partners including fire industry professionals, sponsored a hackathon to see if anyone from the local community could come up with an inexpensive, wireless fire detector that could communicate via Wi-Fi or cellular networks. Through this process, hardware was developed (the device is named CASPER) and is now helping to quell fires in abandoned buildings throughout the city.
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Featured government: Louisville Metro Government
Episode guests: Ed Blayney, Civic Technology Manager for Louisville Metro Government.
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