The Linux Foundation open-sources hardware to help with disaster relief

Project OWL, the winner of 2018's Call for Code, is a cloud-based analytics tool that assists in organization, whereabouts, and logistics for disaster response. Today The Linux Foundation is announcing that it's making Project OWL's IoT device firmware open source to help developers around the world build mesh network nodes for global emergency communications networks. Project OWL envisions these nodes creating large-scale communications networks in the wake of natural disasters. The open source release of OWL's firmware can quickly turn a cheap wireless device into a 'DuckLink', a mesh network node capable of connecting to any other Ducks physically around… [Continue Reading]