1 million cars were damaged in 2017 due to flooding. Phin’s AI enables every
camera to be able to see above and below the water and help citizens navigate to dry grounds.

Phin’s first-in-class computer vision technology turns any camera into a water depth sensor.
# find contours in the binary image
im2, contours, hierarchy = cv2.findContours(
    blobs, cv2.RETR_TREE, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
cv2.drawContours(
    fill_img_bgra, contours, -1, (0,255,0), 3)
areas = []
for c in contours:
    area = cv2.contourArea(c)
    areas.append(area)
    M = cv2.moments(c)
    cX = int(M["m10"] / M["m00"])
    cY = int(M["m01"] / M["m00"])
    print("Found contour at ({0},{1}) with area {2}"
        .format(cX, cY, area))
Phin’s map gets you to your destination safely. Find navigation routes around flooded areas.
lat = float(request.json["lat"])
lng = float(request.json["lng"])
radius_m = float(request.json["radius_m"])
print("Received web request for ({0},{1}), radius (m) {2}".format(lat, lng, radius_m))

if radius_m <= 0:
    print("Given radius <= 0")
    return jsonify([])
if not geo.are_coords_within_gps_grid(g_all_houston_3m_grid_info, lat, lng):
    print("Given coords are not within the Houston GPS grid")
    return jsonify([])

# Get an image of the fill area around the given coords
absolute_indices = geo.gps_coords_to_indices(
    grid = g_all_houston_3m_grid_info,
    lat = lat,
    lng = lng
)
Phin’s crowdsource solution allows cities and citizens to leverage the collective intelligence. View the flood map to see dangers lurking in your area. Snap a picture of a flooded street and send to Phin to keep the map updated and to warn others.
area_stdev = statistics.stdev(areas)
area_max = max(areas)
print("Max area {0}, stdev {1}".format(
    area_max, area_stdev))
for c in contours:
    area = cv2.contourArea(c)
    if area >= (area_max - (2 * area_stdev)):
        (x,y), radius = cv2.minEnclosingCircle(c)
        center = (int(x),int(y))
        radius = int(radius)
        cv2.circle(
            fill_img_bgra, center, radius, (255,255,255), 2)
        cv2.drawContours(
            fill_img_bgra, , -1, (255,255,255), 3)

Our Mission:

Since 2015, more than 100 people have died annually because of floods. The majority of these deaths were vehicle related, and in most cases, avoidable. The economic and emotional costs are also staggering. Hurricane Harvey destroyed 300,000 to 500,000 vehicles in Houston alone. The cost of licensed cars lost in the storm — excluding vehicles flooded while waiting in dealership parking lots — falls between $2.7 and $4.9 billion.
Floods won’t go away anytime soon. In fact, the number of flash flood occurrences are rapidly on the rise.

Phin’s mission is to help commuters and their cars stay safe and dry during floods. Our vision technology allows our users to see below the water and take the dry road home.

Meet Phin, Our Hero Dolphin

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Phin’s mission is to get you home dry. Our intelligent hero goes underneath the murky flood water to determine if the flood water on a street is too deep to pass. If Phin finds that a street is unpassable, it leverages the collective intelligence of the pod to formulate a dry route home.

The Team

Wen Zhang,
CEO

Business management in the startup and corporate world.

Jake Le,
Co-Founder and CCO

The mouth of the company. Before jumping into the startup space, Jake put in his time in a fortune 100 tech company, where he was one of the youngest sales leaders. In his latest escapades, he helped grow a Colombian software company from 12 to 90 employees. Jake is a self-proclaimed capitalist hippy; he claims that he spends one month out of every year in the Peruvian jungle doing “super spiritual” retreats.

Daniel Barker,
Co-Founder and CIO

Engineer with a cybernetic bent.
Unabashed pseudo-intellectual.
Can usually be found struggling to capture deeper thoughts in prose ’n code.
Smart city thought leader.

Ryan Robe,
Co-Founder and CTO

Software engineer. Technology enthusiast. Loves collaborating with creative minds to solve interesting problems of today’s world. When not out solving the world flood problem, you can find Ryan laying down the law at Dungeons and Dragons meetups.

Joel Aud, Advisor

Former Department of Public Safety Lead – Counter Terrorism Division.
CTO of Beholder HQ.
Partner at Lean Tail Labs.

Satoshi Takano, Advisor

Co-founder at the Gordie Howe Advanced Imaging & Research Institute.
On the advisory board at Humber College, and is a teaching professor of business at the Faculty of Applied Science and Technology. 
 
Recently was the Vice President of Sales at BroadSoft, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2017 for $2.1B. Prior to BroadSoft, held various management roles in sales, marketing, and engineering at Verizon, Bell Canada, and Cisco Systems.

 

Mark Friday, Advisor

Venture Capital Lead – Cathexis Capital
Smart City Expert
Futurist | Engineering Consultant

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