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Earthquake Early Warning Systems

Deploy a functioning EEW system in months, not decades — at a fraction of the cost of traditional infrastructure.

The fastest path to a national EEW system

Building earthquake early warning infrastructure used to take decades and hundreds of millions of dollars. Grillo changes that.

Our system — deployed in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and now Haiti — is less than 10% the cost of traditional EEW and can be operational in months. Grillo Pulse sensors installed along active fault lines feed real-time data to Grillo Cloud, where SISTEM's machine learning detects earthquakes and triggers mobile alerts before shaking arrives.

Haiti's EEW system — the first in the Caribbean — was built with Grillo in partnership with UNDP, Digicel, and AWS. 100 sensors. 6 months. A functioning prototype protecting millions.

Grillo EEW deployment
<10%
The cost of traditional EEW infrastructure
Months
To a functioning system — not decades
5 countries
Mexico, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Chile, Nepal

How it works

1

Deploy Grillo Pulse sensors

Solar-powered Pulse sensors are installed along active fault lines. No external power or internet infrastructure needed — each unit is self-contained with LTE connectivity and GPS timing.

2

SISTEM detects the event

Real-time seismic data streams to Grillo Cloud. SISTEM's machine learning detects the P-wave signature and calculates magnitude and location within seconds of an earthquake starting.

3

Alerts reach people in time

Warnings are distributed via mobile networks, apps, or connected devices — giving people seconds to take cover before destructive shaking arrives. Every second matters.

Independently validated

Researchers from the Czech Academy of Sciences, USGS, and University of Oregon published an independent evaluation of Grillo sensors in Seismological Research Letters (2024) — confirming accuracy and performance. Grillo has also outperformed Mexico's government EEW system (SASMEX) in head-to-head detection speed tests.

Deployed with

UNDP AWS IDB Clinton Foundation USAID

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