One week after #HurricaneBeryl swept through the Houston area, hundreds of thousands of residents are still without power in the sweltering Texas heat. Check out this NBC News segment from Friday which featured our Ting sensor data. Data is critical in moments of crisis, and our Ting Sensor Network in Houston was able to help keep residents informed as power was being restored. We're continuing to keep the Texas community in our thoughts. https://lnkd.in/e674uJbF
Whisker Labs
IT Services and IT Consulting
Germantown, MD 2,880 followers
Whisker Labs develops cutting-edge sensor technology to help protect homes and communities from electrical fires
About us
Whisker Labs develops cutting-edge sensor technology to protect families, homes, and communities by predicting and preventing electrical fires with its flagship solution, Ting.
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https://www.tingfire.com
External link for Whisker Labs
- Industry
- IT Services and IT Consulting
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Germantown, MD
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2014
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12410 Milestone Center Drive
Suite 325
Germantown, MD 20874, US
Employees at Whisker Labs
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Jim Anderson
Helping climate-positive enterprises strategize, connect and grow | Author - "Good Enough for the Climate"
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Daniel O'Connell
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David Oberholzer
General Manager, Energy Management at Resideo
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Paula Perlman
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TEXAS POWER OUTAGE UPDATE AS OF JULY 13 AT 5:00PM CDT. Progress in most counties and outage trackers are reported as being back online. We appreciate everyone who has tuned into our updates and most importantly, we hope you're all staying safe. #HurricaneBeryl #Houston #CrisisCommunications #Weather #PowerOutage #HoustonStrong
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"Whisker Labs {Ting} sensors continued to record outages uninterrupted. The sensors also picked up on outages up to an hour faster at the peak of the power loss." Another great feature from the Houston Chronicle on how our Ting Sensor Network data has been an integral part of power outage reporting in the wake of #HurricaneBeryl. https://lnkd.in/eB7jSaEV
Exclusive: New data reveals CenterPoint’s unprecedented glitches and power loss
houstonchronicle.com
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TEXAS POWER OUTAGE UPDATE AS OF JULY 13 AT 8:00AM CDT. Little progress overnight, though Harris County is improving. Please check back every few hours for continued updates and most importantly, we hope you're all staying safe. #HurricaneBeryl #Houston #CrisisCommunications #Weather #PowerOutage #HoustonStrong
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#HurricaneBeryl is the latest natural disaster to wreak havoc on the power grid in Houston. With outage data largely unavailable, our #PowerOutage updates gathered from thousands of Ting sensors in the area have been an effort to help residents who were left in the dark. Our thoughts remain with the Texas community during this challenging time for so many, and we hope that power is restored quickly. Thank you to The Washington Post for continuing to shed light on the increasing challenges Texans face with the state of its power grid. https://lnkd.in/esg9a2di
Anger over power outages boils as Beryl leaves Houston reeling
washingtonpost.com
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TEXAS POWER OUTAGE UPDATE AS OF JULY 12 AT 4:15PM CDT. Progress remains slow. Please check back every few hours for continued updates and most importantly, we hope you're all staying safe. #HurricaneBeryl #Houston #CrisisCommunications #Weather #PowerOutage #HoustonStrong
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Watch as Hurricane Beryl makes its way across the Houston area, wreaking havoc on the city's power grid. We hope those without power are staying safe and experience relief soon. #HoustonStrong
Check out this shocking but real video that documents the collapse of the Houston Area Electric Grid during Hurricane Beryl. Each dot is a Ting sensor in a Houston neighborhood and the Ting network covers every neighborhood in Houston. The “exploding white dots” represent Ting network detected grid faults caused by trees touching wires, wires touching wires, wires and poles falling and grid equipment failing. As homes lose power they turn from white to red. This is very sad to see. It is clear that this grid was not ready for Beryl. The people of Houston are suffering as a result. At the peak more than 80% of homes in the Houston area lost power. Even now, 40% of homes in Harris County remain without power. The Whisker team is posting regular updates to help the people of Houston stay informed as this is the only source of real-time, neighborhood level information. This is a humanitarian crisis at this point and we sincerely hope that that power and lives can be restored to normal soon. Unfortunately, this is yet another example of the catastrophic consequences of poor grid resilience. Ting data over the past 3 years indicates that homes in Houston are 2.5X more likely to experience a power outage compared to the average U.S. home. So the Houston area grid challenges are not new or unique to Beryl. We hope to leverage the power of Ting data to help utilities understand where grids are weak and stressed, and allow for smart and targeted investments to improve grid resilience. Society needs a resilient and reliable grid. Please keep the people of Houston in your thoughts and prayers. #HurricaneBeryl #Houston #PowerOutage #HoustonStrong #gridresilience
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TEXAS POWER OUTAGE UPDATE AS OF JULY 12 AT 12:15PM CDT. Progress remains slow. Please check back every few hours for continued updates and most importantly, we hope you're all staying safe. #HurricaneBeryl #Houston #CrisisCommunications #Weather #PowerOutage #HoustonStrong
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TEXAS POWER OUTAGE UPDATE AS OF JULY 12 AT 8:15AM CDT. Minimal progress overnight. Please check back every few hours for continued updates and most importantly, we hope you're all staying safe. #HurricaneBeryl #Houston #CrisisCommunications #Weather #PowerOutage #HoustonStrong
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TEXAS POWER OUTAGE UPDATE AS OF JULY 11 AT 5:00PM CDT. The percentage of homes without power has slightly declined. Please check back every few hours for continued updates and most importantly, we hope you're all staying safe. #HurricaneBeryl #Houston #CrisisCommunications #Weather #PowerOutage #HoustonStrong
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