Impact

our mission

Increasing Earthquake Resilience

Earthquakes affect almost 1/3 of the world’s population and are more destructive than all other natural disasters combined.

Grillo is a social enterprise helping people living in vulnerable areas by providing early-warnings and sharing technology and data.

What We Do

Engage Stakeholders

We speak to local seismologists and engineers to ensure good regional knowledge and obtain buy-in for the project’s longevity.

Deploy Sensors

Having determined the optimum locations, the nodes are installed and configured. Locations are carefully chosen with help from the community.

Share Alerts and Data

Data from the system is used for real-time earthquake alerts and is also shared with local institutions for research.

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OpenEEW

Grillo has founded OpenEEW in partnership with IBM and the Linux Foundation to allow communities to build their own earthquake early-warning system. Anyone can deploy or contribute to this open source toolset, which includes the core components from the Grillo EEW.

1 November 2015

USAID DIV

Grillo enters USAID Development Innovation Ventures and develops its core technologies.

Data on AWS

Over 1TB of data from Grillo’s EEW is open sourced and shared on the AWS Open Data program.

2 July, 2019

11 March, 2020

Call for Code

Grillo joins IBM’s Call for Code program that allows open sourcing of its key technologies.

Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation hosts the OpenEEW project, promoting it globally

15 August, 2020

25 May, 2021

Clinton Global Initiative

Creating partnerships to deploy an open source EEW in Puerto Rico.

Do you wish to Contribute?

IoT Makers

Makers and Engineers can improve the firmware and hardware for sensors and alarm devices.

Developers

Developers can advance the various docker, node-red, and other apps that make up OpenEEW.

Seismologists

Seismologists or Data Scientists can develop new detection methods with OpenEEW data.

See Code on Github

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Case Study: Mexico

Following the devastating 2017 earthquakes in Mexico, USAID and Roddenberry Foundation supported Grillo in the creation of a new Mexican earthquake early-warning system with 50 sensors.

The system has to date provided over 1000 alerts and is being used by 12,000+ users via phone app, home device and school loudspeakers.