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OU students develop software to alert truckers to hazardous weather conditions

By Brianna Bailey, Business WriterA group of University of Oklahoma students has used data from the National Weather Center to develop a new web-based application that alerts truckers to hazardous weather conditions on the road. Called Siren, the web application is being tested at three Oklahoma-based commercial trucking companies in about 1,700 trucks, including Oklahoma City’s United Petroleum Transport. The application grew out of a project that Siren co-founder and CEO Ryan Phillips helped develop at OU’s Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth, an economic development and business accelerator program. “Weather-related accidents are a huge problem and hopefully we can help prevent some of these, and save money and time in the process,” said Phillips, who is earning his master’s degree in computer science at OU. The application has a proprietary algorithm using data on every weather-related accident over the past 40 years to determine which weather conditions are most dangerous, as well as weather forecast data from the National Weather Center in Norman. Siren crunches the data to calculate the risk of an accident based on weather conditions.Read more on NewsOK.com

 

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