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The startup uses its own pure-software methods and takes the help of existing infrastructure or day-to-day devices such as street cameras, cellphones, internet-connected devices to sense the environment.
- The startup uses its own pure-software methods and takes the help of existing infrastructure or day-to-day devices such as street cameras, cellphones, internet-connected devices to sense the environment.
- Determined to resolve this issue, three young entrepreneurs from Israel came up with ClimaCell , a firm which provides accurate weather forecast in a bid to alert people of upcoming floods by using day-to-day devices as environmental sensors.
- In March, the company launched its new global flood prediction models and alerts which deploy a network of 500 million virtual sensors to boost a cutting-edge Hydro-Meteorological platform that accurately predicts when floods will strike, even for flash floods.
- The idea is that many things around us are sensitive to the weather, and we use these sensitivities to see the weather much better," Elkabetz told ET.