How to become a superhero without even leaving your desk!
summary
Claims concrete, tested solutions: a zoo project uses thermal sensors + ML to detect animal presence and switch heaters, cutting wasted electricity from a £150,000 annual bill; a Call for Code winner builds a floating mesh "duck" IoT network (puffer/mama/duck links) that re-establishes long-range radio comms and feeds a responder dashboard; a wearable firefighter health device streams temperature, humidity and smoke to a color dashboard for real-time safety; an IBM Graph system delivers 3 km, hourly forecasts by ingesting tens of TB and running ~2 trillion ops/sec.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 2:11What Makes a Superhero
- 4:13Protecting the Animal Kingdom
- 8:16How Do We Protect Communities during Natural Disasters
- 9:13Call for Code
- 12:03Prometheus
- 13:31Ibm Graph
- 14:32The Ibm Graph Project
- 15:56Preventing Pollution
- 17:29How Can We Decrease Our Impact through Software Development
- 20:09Missing Maps
- 21:34Amnesty Decoders
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