IoT devices configured in a wireless mesh network can be quickly deployed to provide basic connections when natural disasters knock out traditional communications links. An open source project ...

Nine months ago, worlds collided between five guys — Nick Feuer, Charlie Evans, Magus Pereira, Taraqur Rahman, and I — with the same mission: Develop technology that can help reduce the impact of ...

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The IBM-backed developers behind Project Owl, winner of 2018’s Call For Code challenge, have successfully tested their rubber duck-based emergency WiFi network in Puerto Rico. And, with hurricane ...

The Linux Foundation said today it has agreed to house the “internet of things” device firmware effort of Project OWL, which aims to create a mesh network of open source devices called “DuckLinks” ...

WASHINGTON – Project OWL is putting their ducks to work for the U.S. Army. The small business won the Army’s xTechSearch 5 prize competition with the DuckLink, its revolutionary communications tool ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Army recently named Project OWL, based out of Brooklyn, New York, as the first-place winner of its xTechSearch 5 Competition for their Deployable Ubiquitous Connectivity Kit, ...

Have you ever been in a disaster? I have, and you probably have, too. One of the worst things about them is that, when you need help, you can't get it because communication links fall apart. That's ...