An elastic early warning system enables people and authorities to save lives and property in case of disasters. For example, in case of floods, a warning timely issued before the event, will allow for reservoir operators to gradually reduce water levels, people to reinforce their homes, hospitals to be prepared to receive more patients, authorities to prepare and provide help.

Even after a couple of years after the end of the project, the know-how obtained from SWITCH is still alive in the company, as a stable mindset for the design of our IoT solutions, including:

• The usage of Time Series Databases (as Graphite and InfluxDB) that help modern application to accommodate the growth of data volumes that come with the development of Internet of Things;
• Using IoT optimized, lightweight communication protocols (as MQTT) for telemetry data transport;
• Using container based technologies (as Docker) for the deployment of heterogeneous software solution with high Cloud resource usage efficiency;
• Many other pieces of Cloud and Telemetry know-how that are hard to describe, but easy to sense in a group of great experts, as the one formed around the SWITCH project.