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Every year, flash floods cause massive damages. It’s time to change this.

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Introducing EARL.

EARL is an early warning system for flash floods. Every year, flash floods as a result of thunderstorms and heavy rain cause severe damages and casualties. The local and short-term nature of such weather phenomena makes it hard to predict which creeks and rivers are going to be affected to what extent. Due to climate change, extreme weather events are likely to increase both in frequency and severity. EARL helps detecting possible flash floods before they happen.

Monitor Risks

EARL monitors precipitation and waters to anticipate an increasing risk of a flash flood.

Save Lives

EARL alerts people living in the vicinity of creeks and rivers.

Protect Communities

EARL gives emergency forces a lead, allowing them to gain valuable time to react more quickly in case of a flash flood.

Predict the unexpected

Unlike traditional expert methods and models, EARL delivers AI based predictions of flash floods in real time and for a wide range of waters and regions. It automatically collects data, predicts discharge rates of rivers, monitors the flooding risk, and spreads the information to subscribers, e.g. authorities, fire and police departments, insurance companies, and real estate owners.

Alert

EARL never sleeps and monitors precipitation and flooding risks in real-time, 24/7.

Autonomous

EARL provides a fully automated delivery of flash flood warnings, usable in home and infrastructure automation systems.

Artificially Intelligent

EARL uses a novel AI approach to model the complex and highly non-linear relation between precipitation and flash floods.

Our Technology

Developing cutting-edge flood prediction models and running EARL require state of the art tools and a high-end infrastructure. With the Google Cloud Platform, we build on the best cloud infrastructure to deliver our services to our clients.

Data Harvesting

We deploy our own sensors to measure river discharge rates. This allows us to increase coverage quickly wherever it is needed.

Deep Learning

We use TensorFlow to develop and run our proprietary AI prediction models.

Cloud Computing

We use the Google Cloud Platform to build end-to-end solutions that make the most out of our data and models. We are eager adopters of the serverless paradigm.

The Team

We combine strong skills in machine learning, statistics, and cloud architecture.

Antonio Oro, Founder & CEO

Juri Sarbach, Founder & CTO

Kate Gadola, Software Developer

Peter Giger, Model Developer

Contact us

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Sihlquai 131
CH-8005 Zürich

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