Gulf oil spill clean up relying on cell phones July 15, 2010
Cell phones, of all things, are playing a critical role in the clean up of the oil in the Gulf thanks to a St. Louis
software company.Agilis Systems usually works with companies like Schnucks, to help track deliveries with GPS software.
In the gulf clean up, the company has installed special software on regular cell phones. The phones are assigned to the fishermen working for BP.
The software turns the phones in to easy to use, sophisticated field recorders, collecting data that helps incident commanders know where to deploy resources. Everyday, hundreds of fishermen are trained how to use the phones in just about 10 minutes.
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- Author : Roni
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