City emergency managers want to employ artificial intelligence to help detect natural hazards across Oʻahu.
The Honolulu City Council passed a 3 last year urging city officials to install monitoring devices in areas vulnerable to flooding. After the Kona lows this spring, lawmakers then allocated $300,000 to the city’s Department of Emergency Management to support the development of a flood detection system.
DEM Director Randal Collins provided an update on that work to the council on Tuesday. He told lawmakers he was confident that a pilot of the early detection system could be up and running within this fiscal year, which ends in June…