 Hello everybody Already screwed it up, I'm sorry Turn that down. Okay. Well, it's a pleasure to Be here sort of And See everybody let me just try and turn this Better. All right. So I think we're probably almost ready. I'll just give it another minute I'm gonna queue up my slide deck and Yeah, we'll be ready to go in a few seconds. Okay, I Think we've got a group again. I'm Brian Knauss. It's a pleasure to be here Thank you all for joining. I would much rather love to be able to see everybody in person and Have conversations on technology open source Linux systems with this group in person But um, you know, considering we're in a once-in-a-century plague in apocalypse Sometimes we got to make the s with the situation we have so that in mind. I will queue up my screen share You should be able to see me. We're gonna jump into the deck I do have a Q&A box Feel free to ask any questions. I really like discussions like this being conversational and not kind of you know Just talking about slides and paragraphs. I find that so boring when I attended myself. So I like You know having a discussion about technology when I'm doing my screen share I can't see the Q&A thing. So maybe what I'll do is I'll kind of run through this More quickly and leave like 10 or 15 minutes at the end if there's any conversation If not, we'll keep talking. I'll share more photos or something and we'll just kind of see how it goes so I'm Brian Knauss. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Project Owl And today we're gonna be talking about open source Internet of Things Networks to make an impact around the world with Project Owl So first what should you be doing during this presentation? So I don't know the archetypes of everybody Who will be joining us? I want to get creative about IOT and mesh networking And I want you to get inspired about things you can do with IOT and some of the next capabilities of this technology That's gonna usher in I believe a real incredible few years ahead of networking connectivity and edge computing With that said Project Owl, we are a tiny company. We're very young, but we do have some extra electronics and swag I would love to give to some of you What I would ask is go ahead if you're interested if you like playing with IOT like coding or do we know anything like that? You just want a t-shirt? Shoot me an email with your name a little bit of background about yourself and maybe what you're trying to do with some IOT And if quantities permitting if there aren't too many people we'll send you some stuff and get you set up with Some cluster ducks and we'd love to feature your work on the cluster doc protocol website feature in our Slack So just keep that in mind as we're going through I'll have more links to all this As we get there if we need cool So we're gonna start with the origins of Project Owl in this discussion We're gonna go through the state of the Internet of Things Dig into a little bit of interoperable IOT firmwares What the cluster doc protocol actually is and then we're gonna conclude this looking towards the future with what's the experience and How do we build a global open-source development community to leverage the incredible millions of developers around the world to make game-changing technology that can help Connect the people places and things we care about most So let's get started the origins of Project Owl the nest in a way in the cluster doc protocol So who are we and what do we do well? The best way to start in my opinion is to go back to Texas in August 2017 now some of you may have been in Texas at the time some of you May have been in other places affected by similar events Hurricane Harvey was one of the largest hurricanes to hit the United States and This photo doesn't really show the scale of the event, but what I love about this photo is it does show The enormous magnitude of water almost an unimaginable Maybe you can imagine the unimaginable amount of water if you know Houston's pretty flat and it's getting six feet of water on top of that This was really an unprecedented amount of water that was dumped upon this region Just a couple weeks after Hurricane Irma ripped through the Caribbean Couple weeks after that one of the most devastating hurricanes in history Hurricane Maria Passed through Puerto Rico and the other Caribbean islands and you may also notice Just days before that happened Hurricane Jose hit the East Coast a really terrible time On the East Coast in the Caribbean for natural disasters particularly hurricanes This photograph of solar panel damage I think really encapsulates what hurricanes are capable of and what happens in Puerto Rico solar energy farms are I Think a modern manifestation of technology today and you can see here the hurricane ripped through it like it was paper going through a shredder Just complete another devastation and then of course Not even a year after that barely a year after that Hurricane Florence hit the US East Coast dumping an enormous amount of water a gigantic hurricane by by modern standards So if you encountered any of these events if you've heard of these been through anything similar You might notice these four in particular I noted are quite unique in the history of Atlantic hurricanes in the United States If we look at a list from Wikipedia of the costly as Atlantic hurricanes in history You'll notice three of the four highest Happened within a month of each other in 2017 if you add Florence a year later to that list This accounts for almost three hundred billion dollars in damages in just one year in just one specific Part of the world from just one type of natural disaster so really a truly massive amount of destruction of and a toll on human life as well as the economic Infrastructure we're used to that that powers our modern society So this is terrible. What do we do about this? This was a question project. I was asking ourselves in The summer of 2018 after a few of our founding members had just been through these scenarios Hurricane Harvey in Houston one of our original developers Hurricane Florence in North Carolina. I live in New York City I'm not there right now, but Hurricane Sandy still to this day six years later is shutting down subway lines in New York City for repairs It's pretty incredible So what do we do we felt that we needed to acquire and share more data sounds simple And why does accumulating and distributing more data help during a disaster? What is how does this help us? We're still gonna get hit right? What does this do? So to Illustrate what I think we're capable of as a society particularly with technology. I want to show you a couple slides One is this comes from Mary Meeker's internet trans reports. Some of you may have heard of Talks a lot about you know growth expansion of the internet One characteristic of this I find particularly interesting is the growth of data and there's two Characteristics of this chart we're looking at which is the growth of data and the growth of that data that is structured The ratio of that data that is structured so Clearly growing exponentially The amount of data produced as well as the amount of data that's structured and that's really important to inform artificial intelligence technologies machine learning algorithms that eat this data To provide their insights analytics pattern matching all sorts of things like this And we think this can make a big impact in disaster response And to showcase many of you I'm sure are familiar with AI machine learning techniques technologies One of my favorite ways to describe what I think AI is good at is with this This is a vitamin water Kiwi strawberry. I don't even know if they make it anymore But when I was in college, I used to drink this all the time on one hand It's the best flavor Kiwi strawberry was amazing But on the other they called it focus and I thought you know if I'm in college if I can just drink this and be more focused Well, that's that's a pretty easy win Needless to say I don't think it works, but I always found it so interesting the paragraph on the side here and If you want to go ahead and read it yourself I'll read a little part But what it says is and I have not memorized this a recent study found that it doesn't matter What order the letters of a word are in the only important thing is that the first and last letters are in the correct position? Unfortunately, that's not the case for everything in life. Sometimes the in-between stuff matters Imagine if you only put on your hat and shoes before going out. That's why we made this product It's got vitamin a an important nutrient for your eyes as they focus on everything the middle stuff included So take a sip. No really take a sip. We're waiting there now. You have a bit of focus So if you're looking at this, why did I bring this up? What's so interesting here is they've jumbled up all the letters and you think at face value This would be extremely hard to read But as you're going through it, you realize your brain does an incredible job interpolating what goes where? This is the type of thing that the human brain is really good at understanding and figuring out subconsciously But maybe you can imagine this is the type of activity Intellectual activity that computers up until very recently would have been a monumental task to overcome Maybe if you're a programmer, could you imagine writing code like this and having it all just work out in the end? That would be crazy So what does this mean? Why why does growing data mean anything to us? Why does this have an implication in natural disaster as well? Maybe you've seen this photo before This is a million water bottles on a runway in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria all of these went to waste Now I'm not using this example to criticize FEMA and first responders Many times these folks are giving their lives to help people in need Certainly Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican communities. We've spoken to have Criticisms of the ways this was handled But what I want to speak more to is not so much the mistake that was made here But maybe we all can empathize with and understand how something like this would happen this is a human mistake unfortunately at a very large magnitude of Inaccurately allocating resources not understanding Coordinating and communicating with the folks in need and the leaders in those communities and not able to organize Where resources should go to who needs it to where they are to when they need it? We can understand that as a human you could easily make a mistake there. Unfortunately. This one was at massive scale But this is again like the vitamin water where this might be a problem that humans aren't incredibly Well suited to solve intellectually. This is the type of Organizational data manipulation effort that computers are really great at keeping track of and not forgetting that there's a million water bottles I'm here and we should cut that in half and and allocate it somewhere else So again talking about our origins. What does this mean for project Allen? Why am I talking about hurricanes when we were supposed to be talking about IOT networks around the world? Well, this was the inspiration For us to go and build Interconnected wireless technologies that can help bring back communications and networking in places that have lost it Particularly after the events of a natural disaster like what happened in Puerto Rico so to dig into how we entered this market and where we were when we started we were looking at the current state of the Internet of Things and There are many ways we can look at this from many perspectives and I think just one quote to generalize McKinsey and company did a Put out research that suggests the Internet of Things presents an enormous opportunity To transform the way we live and do business and we'll have an economic impact of between four trillion and eleven trillion dollars by 2025 now These kinds of statistics I always find kind of interesting because you know four trillion dollars Nobody knows what that looks like right? I've never seen a four trillion dollar bill or stack of cash in the United States But what it does show is the generalization that this is going to be Operating at a very large scale and drive a lot of economic growth during this near-term time frame So IOT will play a part in and almost everybody's life and Drive economic growth from manufacturing to technology health care disaster response So I pulled this slide Maybe bring this more down to earth especially to the technologists and programmers on board I pulled this from particles 2019 state of IOT. I thought this was an awesome overview of What's actually hard about IOT? What are we building? What are the things that people are really focused on today? So you'll see some of the stuff we've all done collected store data Visualized data that that's kind of easy easy to build those solutions easy to work with as you move forward You look at the hard end reducing bandwidth consumption delivering software updates edge devices Debugging unhealthy devices. I can certainly say as one of the developers who built the cluster that protocol These are very hard things to do and we focus a lot of time and effort on delivering software updates edge devices OTA as we call it over the air optimizing bandwidth and I have to chuckle at debugging on healthy devices. I think that's a very professional way of saying a lot of the electronics We get our crap But certainly our experience aligns with that. I've got a one of the boards I'll show later a TT go TV for any IOT ears out there. These come from China These are actually pretty good. Some of the other boards we use though the consistency and quality is is very hard to gauge and you can imagine how frustrating it is when you know a bunch of young developers go out to Puerto Rico to Deploy some mesh networks and they realize half their devices aren't transmitting. We don't know why we don't know how we're not that smart Unfortunately takes a while to figure that out so if you go on to the internet and You look up IOT devices for those developers. You might recognize some of these people who haven't built IOT Devices or abduinos or played around with razz pie some of these may be new You don't need to know what these are In the top left. You have the hell tech ESP 32. We use these at project owl a lot We have the pie comm low pies low pie four is actually we've played around with those a raspberry pie in the top Right with a Laura hat on it These very easy to get off Amazon you can even get in the bottom left a TT go TV And what's just fantastic about the state of IOT is if I order two of these one from Amazon One day and another from Amazon the next or one from Ali express I might even get a TV. That's actually a different board. It looks different like the one in the center middle You just never know. It's so exciting or if you're crazy and you love putting yourself through hell you can buy the Laura modules yourself and wire up an entire board on your own So the point is there's a million different ways you can execute building an IOT device And there are many many more than what you can see on here Out there that you can use and like this little guy many times It feels like you have to be nothing short of a wizard to be able to make them work And this was our experience for the first two years whether it's quality control consistency Challenges in the firmware it seems to be a combination of expertise Hard work sweat labor and just a little bit of magic to get these things working at the end of the day So this brings us to 2018 and again project owl had been through hurricanes. We saw the destruction And and what were we gonna do about it? So in 2018 I got a call from a mentor of mine at IBM who said hey, we're putting on a global hackathon It's called the IBM call for code and this asked developers to build things that Can help communities prepare for deal with or respond to natural disasters? So with all this in mind we immediately Jumped into the community in New York City where I live There's an incredible meetup community for all different types of technologies So we went to a things network meetup in New York City in July 2018 This is as far as I can tell on my phone the very first photo of anything I Or anybody on my team ever did with project owl and what you'll see is a small group of folks Some we still keep in touch with to this day a lot of IOT boards on the table You'll notice my Intel Edison and Galileo that I still to this day don't really know how to program on We've iterated far beyond that but these were really our first taste was just going to these These meetups and these communities getting as deep in the weeds as possible to understand how you can leverage this technology Leverage open-source technologies on top of that to solve problems Specifically that you want to set out and and achieve Three months later. We were very fortunate that we were selected from over a hundred thousand developers from 156 nations as the global grand prize winners of the IBM call for code and This was a very humbling moment. It provided us with expertise Mentorship from IBM certainly the support of a large organization that's been around for many many years That that's all Incredibly valuable to go from you know a Couch in Brooklyn developing on your sublime text on your computer to the next stage to get this solution out in the world to the point where we have ducks running around the world and So resulted in a group of five IBM corporate service corps members being selected To join us for a pilot in Puerto Rico in March and They came from Canada the United States the United Kingdom and Israel on the left side there you see Maria Masiar from Canada she was a design and UX expert as well as a first responder Omar Arad from IBM research on the right. He is Based in Israel has done a lot of very interesting IOT project in the past the Nick Foyer our CTO in the middle in the back That is on the beach of Loiza and Puerto Rico and you can see one of these very first ducks It looks like duck number five here Our first prototypes of a duck you can see a battery pack and a hell tech ESP 32 just inside there Sitting on the sand in louis and this was our first time ever testing this in Puerto Rico and To give you a better sense of what we did there. I have a short video. I'm just going to check the Make sure everything's okay. Everything looking good so far All right, I'm going to play a video hopefully you can hear this It's only a minute long. I'll link it in the chat if there any problems You So I Hope you could hear that if not, I apologize. I'll make sure this this link is shared But that was a brief overview of our pilot what some of our technology does and How these duck links connect together and I'll talk a little bit more about the architecture in a moment of our Technology what we actually built what's the clustered up protocol and what it actually does So with that in mind, let's dig into the development of an interoperable iot firmware And the key word there is interoperable Why is interoperability so necessary in this world of iot and how can this enable us again to deploy iot communication sensor networks all around the world why is interoperability a key pillar of that Let's go back to our iot device selection here our health techs our low-pies our raspies our TT goes our TT Go sort of version variant and then our basic laura Chipsets now imagine here To make an analogy that instead of these new networks based on these iot devices that you can talk to you to use To communicate basic messaging capabilities or provide sensor data Imagine if these networks that we'd be running through these devices are more like the networks That we currently leverage So to paint a picture imagine if you know you're on at&t i'm on at&t But I couldn't connect and and and interoperate message with send data to people on these other networks That if that was the state of telecom for glte that would really suck it would be very very difficult And significantly reduce our ability to coordinate communicate not just with loved ones or friends But especially in the case of a natural disaster if these networks were not interoperable So too with iot Making sure that all the iot devices out there more than anyone could ever singularly build for Right a firmware to Open sources a big component of that it needs to be able to interoperate with all the devices that already exist And additionally all the ones that will exist in the future that we don't even know about yet So to do this we went back to The heart of where this was all inspired from and where we wanted to lay our foundations of our technical technology and our networks and we went back to portorico We developed a cohort of about a dozen students and administrators At the university of portorico in maya wezz and right now this is currently where our largest active network is operating We have 17 solar powered ducts. I have one here if you can't see my screen. I'll show it to you when I'm back on Ducks operating on rooftops on trees throughout the university We've been planning to return for several months now certainly over the last few months that has been Stunted by global events, but we will continue expanding saturating and adding to that network over time This relationship was also exceptionally valuable because it Created an open source community on the ground So these students and administrators are helping us develop this firmware that runs This communications and sensor network at their school and when earthquake struck portorico in january of this past year Claro fiber went down the internet network throughout the island electricity also went down But our ducts did continue to operate in a local network capacity on land So we thought we were going to have until the fall hurricane season To continue to update and prepare for the next disaster, but it came even earlier than we expected So um while we don't wish for those events. It was good to see that our devices worked as intended One of the things we've learned Developing iot and one of the challenges we've seen is if anyone on this discussion has built radio devices Engaged radio engineering worked on low raw 915 megahertz or any frequency band really you'll understand how deep of a rabbit hole Of knowledge and technology and engineering. This really is What you're seeing here is one of our first tests in comorio. It's a very densely A very dense foliage almost a jungle in the middle of portorico with a small town Kind of seated in the heart So we set up a duct network realized a couple things one dense foliage Dramatically inhibits radio communications as does heat and humidity This was learned through long sweaty experience on the ground in the blazing sun But you'll also see here a lot of repetitive traffic. This is What had actually happened in our firmware at the time was One of our ducts malfunctioned and we started DDoSing ourselves what we've aptly named the duct DOS in our mesh network So problems that had to be accounted for and you can see in our what we call the owl data management system This is an incident management system that provides dots on a map The cluster duct networks on the ground share data up to the cloud owl dms and we can see that data coming through So if there's any communications Sensor data on these networks This is where that data lands and you can imagine a first responder government official can be watching anywhere in the world With an internet connection to get a sense and a picture of what's going on on the ground So I feel obligated at this point to also explain in more detail exactly what a cluster duct network is What do our devices do and how do they interact with each other? So a duck may be a tt go. It might be a hell tech It's got a couple things on it a laura radio 915 megahertz. It also has wi-fi bluetooth and in some cases a gps These technologies make it able to connect to your standard consumer electronics such as a phone or a laptop With a duck on you can connect to its wi-fi network and you know kind of like if you've ever been to a starbucks you join the network and you get a A portal that asks you to agree to the terms Well, very similarly we leverage that portal but instead of asking you to agree to our terms We provide a a short form where you can Submit information about your scenario So imagine you're in portorico after a flood you see a duck link network on your phone You can pull that up and submit information who you are where you are what you need food You know financial assistance emergency services You can even submit messages tweet About twitter's tweets worth a length of of a message kind of like a text message that then permeates through the network Duck links are the edge nodes and they communicate with a mom and duck which is kind of like a central hub Of that mesh network you see on the screen Both of these devices may be identical pieces of hardware We just manipulate the firmware just a little bit to optimize routing throughout the network particularly as that network grows So as data is flowing through the the cluster duck network What will happen is eventually that data will reach a pop a duck Which is again might be an identical piece of hardware The only difference is pop a duck is connected to the cloud So pop a duck is a network gateway that might be connected through ethernet Might be connected through wi-fi in some cases might even be connected through satellite connection And pop a duck forward the data up to that owl data management system if you recall seeing those dots on the map Uh, and that's how we flow data from areas that might not have any electricity or communications From a duck link to a mama duck Ultimately to a pop a duck and then up to the cloud where it can be viewed by those who need to see that information And maybe you can imagine, you know, we've got four ducks here five duck links a mama duck and pop a duck Maybe you can imagine as we continue to iterate and develop our goal Our hope is that we can go to places like Puerto Rico And expand this from one cluster duck network to many that can all connect together And even if you lose some nodes during a hurricane the others continue operating around it To share data and do what We wanted to do when we came up with owl, which is actually an acronym for organization whereabouts and logistics And going back to a comment I made earlier This is why acquiring Sharing and representing data particularly in the context of a natural disaster is so critical to helping communities respond And again the cluster duck network duck links Are evolved from duck links to deployed in clusters that of course forms the cluster duck network So in 18 months We've come a long way learned a lot of things overcome a lot of challenges And that's the result of largely many deployments in the last year alone six trips to Puerto Rico as well as deployments in Georgia and Texas in New York City and Connecticut in massachusetts Tests in australia and hopefully elsewhere around the world We filled many iterations including a couple more i'm going to show you today We've also created youtube content Showing how our duck links work that garnered almost 1.5 million views And our 500 nearly 500 member open source community is active on slack that anyone can join and i'll provide A link for that in a moment Here you can see our latest duck link so inside of there might be a helteck esp 32 an 18650 battery or a ttgo And um, yeah handheld you can stick it to a wall very easy to use one button on off And what this provides when you turn it on is again that wireless network like a router or like a starbucks wifi And then whenever data comes in over wifi from someone's phone or a laptop It transmits that data over laura to any ducks in range And that laura range can be anywhere, you know in line of sight outdoors and optimal conditions one to two kilometers between ducks Um in in the environment of Puerto Rico, maybe something a little bit closer to a couple hundred meters between ducks So four and let me check to make sure we're still all good looks good to me over here So we will keep rolling The fourth and final act of this discussion was really the focus of moving forward And how do we build a global open source development community to make? iot electronics around the world that can provide mesh networking Particularly in the context when all other networking and communications are offline Which again might happen from any number of hurricanes that seem to be increasing in intensity to wildfires to Uh, just the nature of underdeveloped nations that don't have this telecom capability Or even as it were a global pandemic is able to wreak havoc on our infrastructure so to start In march 2020 I was extremely excited that we released the cluster duck protocol as an official open source project alongside the linux foundation So project owl was the original developers of this protocol, but we believed it was extremely valuable To the communities we want to serve to release this as an open source project If you want to learn more head to cluster duck protocol.org and there you can find the code which resides on github We've got a document that teaches you how to make a duck And some youtube videos as well And of course links to uh code response ibn's Organization and the sport of us the linux foundation and project owl There's also links there to join on our slack this website also showcases the main development effort So if you're interested in any part of it, uh, maybe you're a great dev and network protocols You can find some work that's ongoing there and poke your head in Maybe you're not a great developer. You're just inspired or you want to support Communities trying to become more resilient. We we really engage all of these personalities It's a it's a very holistic effort And it's not just about getting You know assembling the nerds like myself who love writing code, but we need people of all types To help us support these communities in need. So we have a very dynamic slack of a lot of different folks from all over the world On that website, you'll also see some of the early variants of the protocol We've got 10 projects hand counting and there are quite a more In development from disco ducts to detector ducts to solar ducts to cluster flocks to duct ducts to space ducts We very much enjoy our puns We love names. So if you have ideas, please email us join our slack. We want to hear about it Or if you have ideas for a new type of iot device, particularly one that needs to leverage mesh network for sensing or Some sort of motion geospatial geospatial gps based Accelerometer based any type of communications. We we love to engage new ideas and continue to expand The frontier of just what you can do with wireless iot technology So one of the last things I want to address is why did we do this? Why did we open source? So again inspired from the events in portorico and houston and north caroline and the terrible natural disasters around the world We felt, you know, we can't stop the natural disasters as much as it would be really fun to sit here and speculate on technologies that can maybe blunt the energy Imparted by a hurricane. These are many many millions of dollars and years down the road So we felt the single best thing we could do was provide a technology that can help people as effectively as possible organize And provide whereabouts and logistics when these events do happen And one key component of that was open sourcing this firmware technology And we did that because we wanted to reach all the places in the world that we were not This is our uprm team at university of portorico maya wez Um, again dozens students and administrators folks who just came together to help us develop this firmware technology We also deployed together. You can see a solar duck in the background there 17 of those were deployed on the university And not only did we want to connect with these communities around the world and support them But we also wanted to distribute the engineering effort We accept that, you know, I'm a nerd. I love building stuff on the computer There's nothing that has ever excited me more in life than just building incredible technology that makes people say wow But I don't have a degree in computer science and I certainly don't have a degree or phd in radio engineering or Firmware protocols or electrical engineering. These are very complicated tasks and you need Experts from all over the world wherever they may reside to be able to overcome the technical hurdles You need to get these solutions up and running in sometimes very remote environments And you can see here several of our uprm Colleagues on the right is yazet seppel vita. He he leads the group on the ground. He's a senior. I believe and Just an incredible individual Contributing to this technology that we're then taking not just from Puerto Rico, but establishing these networks all over the world And as a result our slack channel has grown from five to again almost 500 across six continents and 20 time zones in 18 months We invite everyone from all walks of life whether you're a developer and you've never written a piece of code in their life We we really love talking about this after responding to natural disasters improving Community resilience, and then of course building incredible technology. So if any of that is inspiring to you You can join our slack. You don't need any approval or anything poke your head and say hello at project owl.com project-owl.com slash slack Um, and just want to show you finally a solar duck have I've been building and why that's Very useful. This was yesterday me building the internals to a solar duck You can see why an open source community would be helpful to someone who is using hot glue to insulate his wiring And I'm sure there are some comments on this, but I just want to say the hot glue skills are quite exceptional and it works great And there it is. I took this photo this morning. I'm holding the solar duck here That is solar powered off grid off network wireless communication. So establishing a small network here in massachusetts ryan at this time We've also developed a few new products Or or should I say new implementations are of our open source firmware One of them is the pop-eye. This is a pop a duck running on a raspberry pi And then naturally we added a screen to it to make the pop-eye pad I'm sure a copyright lawsuit is incoming So to end this this discussion and I want to leave a few minutes for questions and such Let's look at a little bit about the future of the cluster duck protocol What are we really interested in doing taking our networks from the 30 permanent solar powered devices? We currently have in portorico to 100 to 500 to thousands of devices running all over the world powered by the sun We want to be the number one integrator of technologies and what that means is All these different iot devices We talked about the word interoperability before Different communications technologies different telcos different networks different smartphones All of these things need to be integrated together. Um, you can imagine if if you exist in a walled garden It may be there's some business cases for that but in the context of disaster response and community resilience That's really not a good position to hold And we want to continue to build towards Being the best integrator of technology In the industry or in the world Particularly in mesh networking and that happens on a software side that happens on a firmware side that happens on a radio side So really thinking about all these different things we can integrate into this technology And who knows what heights we can reach this is a volcano in indonesia where one of the original ducks I believe lucky duck number 13 here. Again, you can see the battery pack and the Incredibly well assembled hell tech inside of this cheap plastic case On a volcano in indonesia from there All the way to a hundred thousand feet in space. So we've done networks on earth We've also done networks off them and space duck one had several sensors and communications technologies This is a prototype, but I think that's a foundation For some incredible testing and networking capacity We want to do in some really unique locations to provide that networking And communications places that don't have it And who knows where that could lead us Let's go populate the solar system with cluster ducks Um, but to bring this all home again, we don't know what the future holds in the world around us Uh, the california wildfires alone. I still can't believe this is a real photo of people just driving down the highway as an entire mountain is on fire Hurricane Florence, uh, again a couple years ago. There will be on average 12 hurricanes this year We've just gotten into hurricane season. So I'm certain we'll be seeing some of these issues in the coming months in the Caribbean and us atlantic coast Karala flooding um Throughout in asia was uh, uh, particularly devastating Recently and um, we've had several individuals jump into our slack to talk about this Problem as they endured it themselves in the environment and how we might be able to support these communities with technology And then of course Natural disasters that many of us didn't even really consider could be happening in 2020 So I guess at this point in 2020 we should have just assumed nothing is impossible But that these things continue to occur They continue to be devastating and in some scenarios like hurricanes They continue to grow in intensity and consistency And we need to build Innovative solutions that can help communities respond to them particularly in places that don't have Many of the things and support structures that we take for granted So lastly what's next again? We love ideas criticism suggestions if you hate our duck names if you love our duck names I want to hear about it. If you have any great ideas shoot me an email We've got electronics. I've got swag like wonderful t-shirts like this um If any of that's interested you shoot me an email is what you're working on We'd love to support you to get some stuff built and see what you guys are thinking about And some current focuses in the protocol itself are on security encryption network protocols performance bandwidth optimization electronic Electronics board independence so being able to apply the cdp to a limitless number of iot boards And then of course network setup and initialization So if any of those are interested to interesting to anybody who's a developer we'd love to speak with you So that's all I got. Thank you very much. You can find slides at www.projectowl.com Linux-os s slides, which I will now Link in the chat. I hope I can link this to everybody But that's all I had. I know we've got a few minutes. I hope I do see some some I'm going to put this in the chat here there are the slides and Project owl. I can see some questions. I will get to them. Hopefully everybody can see the comments. I Okay, so have I involved ham radio operators in with this effort? Yes we have in fact one of the close groups we're closest to in portorico is Itdrc the information technology disaster resource center And many of them are ham radio operators. We've also connected with ham radio folks in california talking about resilience as electrical and radio networks are going down to prevent the wildfires from From starting PG&E was actually shutting down electricity to proactively stop wildfires Ham radio operators reached out. So we have a lot of relationships with the ham radio community and In fact one there's a One of the gentlemen on our team is I forget the word like an official ham radio operator But if you're ham radio operator, we would love to talk to you better understand what you do and how we can support your work But definitely interested in the ham radio community All right from david mandala Have you worked with any arden mesh radio technology? Yes Um David we a while ago Someone reached out. I shouldn't say yes. We haven't worked extensively, but we did have an aredn member Join our flak and was talking to us a little bit about how it worked and whatnot Haven't spoken to him in some time, but I would be very interested to reconnect David if you want to provide some more information or if you have more questions about that Um, I would love to talk more about the aredn And john gold says hops link um okay, so um We We were doing a product demonstration to a company in north carolina and uh one of the gentlemen in north carolina had told me he was uh He was a he was a big IPA guy. Okay, and i've had a an IPA beer from this place up in vermont called um Uh The alchemist brewery. It's called heady topper. It's supposed to be like the best in the united states And one of the things that's cool about it is you can only get it from there So what we were demoing for this group was they wanted a sensor that could track kind of like climate events refrigerated containers on oil tankers So to showcase that we went up got this exclusive rare type of IPA Put it in a case put a hops link in that monitored temperature pressure light exposure humidity Delivered the beer to him on the desk and showed him in real time from the brewery To his desk all of those metrics that the beer Went through so I could confirm that that that pharmaceutical equipment arrived on time In constraints of light temperature exposure and whatnot. So Who knows maybe we'll have an application of that in the future one can only hope But I think Okay, david I got your email. I will copy this Yeah, thank you Um Okay, I think that's all the questions. Is there any anything else I need to do All right, I think that's all we have Thanks everybody for your time. I hope this was valuable. Please connect with me after if there's anything I can do for you I appreciate all your time again. Take care