Introducing

 

Personal Lightning, Storm and Pre-Tornado Detection

Do something about DANGEROUS lightning and severe weather BEFORE it strikes!

The weather affects and influences almost everything you do! With 40 to 50 lightning flashes per SECOND and 1.4 BILLION flashes per year across the globe*, the weather detection hardware, regional data feeds and apps providing general information you currently rely on aren’t good enough to make real-time, local decisions in real-time situations! You can’t do anything about the weather unless you have the best information available, and the NIMBUS^™ technology was created to do just that!

The NIMBUS^™4 Personal Lightning, Storm and Pre-Tornado Detector is about to change the weather industry

Do you know lightning can strike from the trailing edge of a storm up to 8 MILES away AFTER the storm has PASSED and you have blue skies overhead? That’s often after the umpire, referee, or golf course ranger gave the ALL-CLEAR to resume play!

NIMBUS^™ knows.

Do you know when to call the game based on lightning at a baseball, lacrosse or soccer game or tournament? Did the ump or ref base his/her decision by simply hearing or seeing it? Is the customary 30-minute wait correct—sometimes yes, but MOST times NO!

NIMBUS^™ knows.

Out Boating on a beautiful day? Do you know when you have just enough time to come about and return to shore when lightning and storms are approaching?

NIMBUS^™ knows.

Do you know how many more holes you can safely play before the approaching storm and LIGHTNING threatens the course?

NIMBUS^™ knows.

NIMBUS^TM4 knows where the lightning and the storms are, how fast they are approaching you, how much time you have before the storm is on top of you, when it is safe to return and so much more! 

Whether you're playing sports, on a boat, biking, hiking or on a golf course, you want accurate weather information.  If you're responsible for children playing outdoors or you're part of a crew, the weather has a direct impact on you. Severe weather can form without warning and quite often people are caught off guard. That's about to change with NIMBUS^™4!

NIMBUS^™4 will provide you with Estimated Time of Arrival, the speed and direction (NIMBUS^™4D) as the storm is forming or moving toward you, time-to-clear, squall lines, lightning strikes, cloud-to-cloud (truly unique to the NIMBUS^™) and cloud-to-ground lightning and even pre-tornado conditions.

NIMBUS^™ knows and You will too. 

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Lightning Facts

FACT:  Lightning and severe storm detection is essential to protecting lives.

FACT: Existing lightning detection technology was developed decades ago, is outdated and provides inaccurate data, including false positive alerts. For those of you who are not weather aficionados, false positives are interference from energy all around us, such as lawn mowers, cars, etc.

FACT:  While organizations spend an estimated $8B annually on detection hardware, data feeds, apps and subscription services, we have no better knowledge of when and where locally a lightning might strike, where a tornado might be forming or when to resume play.

We’ve all wondered why weather forecasts are inaccurate or why severe weather warnings cover huge geographic areas but NOT our LOCAL towns. 

As we mentioned before, weather detection technology has not fundamentally changed in decades even though distribution methods have. So, while fancy and really cool graphics show up on your phone, this is just repackaged low quality weather information being widely disseminated to the public at large.

That is about to change!

"Unfortunately few people know that the majority of information you turn to and count on to make weather decisions is often inaccurate, delayed or unreliable data."                                        Edward F. Shaver, CTO Entropy

The passion behind the product...

The technology driving NIMBUS^™4 was developed by Edward Shaver, our CTO. He is the physicist who pioneered the commercial hand-held storm detection industry dedicating decades of research and development to earlier generations of hand-held lightning detection devices (the Skyscan® and ThunderBolt® products). He began this work in the 1990’s after learning of a fatal lightning strike of a young child standing on second base during a baseball game. Knowing that you and your child are no safer today with all of the weather apps on your phone or forecasts on the radio or TV, which use technology that is decades old, Edward wanted to offer a scientific solution where others have tried but failed. He has dedicated his life’s work and has developed completely revolutionary proprietary hardware and software with algorithms, 3 microprocessors and patent-pending NIMBUS^™4 Quad-Matrix antenna array with you in mind.

STORM DETECTION TAKES A NEW DIRECTION!

NIMBUS^™4 and NIMBUS^™4D Personal Lightning, Storm and Pre-Tornado Detectors

Patent-pending breakthrough technology...

Your participation will help us to change the world of severe weather detection and enhance public safety!

Built on our patent-pending Quad-Matrix array and proprietary software, NIMBUS^™ core technology has been developed to create a rich data field of real-time, highly accurate localized information that does not exist in any other system or technology.

The NIMBUS^™ data can then be used to identify severe weather events and provide alerts to users with both a speed and accuracy not previously available. In its final form, the NIMBUS^™ technology will be deployed through fixed sensors that can be networked to provide very large coverage areas, up to state or national levels. By purchasing your hand-held detector today, you help move us closer to this target and much, much more.  Thank you.

ZERO FALSE POSITIVES - Why this is important

The NIMBUS^™ Quad-Matrix antenna array was designed to maximize sensitivity and accuracy of storm data and to reduce the chance of false positive signals to zero. This is the result of the direct-to-digital signal conversion, and the ability of the NIMBUS^™ to simultaneously analyze four channels of data. The NIMBUS^™ is the ONLY personal storm detector that captures the full incoming waveform, and this information allows the NIMBUS^™ to easily see the difference between lightning signals, and signals from any other source of electronic noise (such as lawn mowers, cars, etc.). Older products only use one or two channels for detection, but even these channels simply capture a pulse of energy and NOT the full waveform.  This is the reason these older products are prone to showing false positive warnings, and also prone to missing actual lightning strokes completely. 

How it works...

NIMBUS^™ technology utilizes the most advanced, computing power with our patent-pending proprietary antenna array to monitor, analyze and share weather conditions happening around you in REAL TIME. Continuous visual text and strobe alerts keep you informed of local weather activity as it happens. Any storm detector is only as good as the antenna system collecting the data, and the antenna design in the NIMBUS^™ is so good that we are getting it patented. Four channels of direct-to-digital data give the NIMBUS^™ the power it needs to the job. Your unit is one smart storm detector and it's super easy to use! 

What is does...

NIMBUS^™4 will provide you with ETA, the speed and direction (NIMBUS^™4D) as the storm is forming or moving toward you, time-to-clear, squall lines, lightning strikes, cloud-to-cloud (truly unique to the NIMBUS^™) and cloud-to-ground lightning and even pre-tornado conditions. The NIMBUS^™ software architecture includes the ability to store up to a year’s worth of data inside the unit.  Two USB ports allow for a wide range of Internet connectivity to support data networking, remote diagnostics, and control of additional wireless accessories that can make your NIMBUS^™ the heart of a complete system. The NIMBUS^™ provides you with reliable, real-time severe weather activity within a 600 mile radius from your current location and alerts you to impending danger!  You'll have a continual stream of storm data giving you the power to make decisions including when it is safe to evacuate the playing field but also when to resume outdoor activities.

Product Specifications & Features

· ARM-Based Microprocessor architecture (3) for high resolution with Direct-to-Digital data collection and analysis

· 7.5 X 4 X 1.5 inches and weighs 2 lbs

· 10-12 hours of battery life - rechargeable

· Storm Detection range of 600 miles (965km)

· Early Storm Alerts out 20 miles

· Elimination of false positives

· Ability to detect all lightning strikes (cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-ground, positive polarity) in complete form

· USB port for connectivity, updates, calibration and field diagnostics

· Software adjustments for latitude and terrain

· 3600 mAh rechargeable Lithium Ion battery (10-12 hr. life)

· 4 pre programmed languages (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese) plus others available for download

· Warning system uses screens and colored display of LED lights

What We Need & What You Get

Our campaign will fund the final completion and launch of our initial products, the NIMBUS^™4 and NIMBUS^™4D personal lightning, storm and pre-tornado conditions detector (www.nimbus4.com). Cash flow from these products will, in turn, fund the completion of the Nimbus^™6 Tornado Detector, Nimbus^™ Net (www.nimbus-net.com), military applications, UAV (drone) detection, earthquake detection and more.

Your participation will help us to CHANGE THE WORLD of severe weather detection and enhance public safety!

Who we are...

Florida is the "lightning capital of America" with more thunderstorms and lightning strikes than any other state.   Experienced weather industry executives  founded Entropy Technology Design, Inc. in Florida. 

Tami Fitzpatrick (CEO) established Entropy in the Tampa Bay area, as a woman-owned technology development company in 2014 to develop an integrated software and hardware driven technology for the severe weather and tornado detection/warning markets.

Edward Shaver (CTO), physicist is a co-founder of Entropy Technology Design, Inc. where he and a team of engineers are developing cutting edge technology that will let you make real decisions about the weather in real-time. Entropy is also developing detection of other events emitting low frequency signals, including tornados for deployment in a variety of forms including hand-held devices, a network of fixed sensors and mobile modules and more. 

For more information, please contact us or visit www.entropydesigns.com

Risks & Challenges

We've overcome many of the typical risks and challenges involved in the launching of new products.

• Engineering specifications and mechanical production packages are complete   
  
• Component vendors and manufacturing partner have been selected                       
  
• Provisional Patent No. 62326079                                                                                           
  

Sources:  *National Geographic. http://geology.com/articles/lightning-map.shtml, NOAA

Disclaimer:

The products that serve as Perks are in the later part of development phase. We could encounter technical, economical or other circumstances such as funding issues that force us to delay delivery, production, design or even non-production of Perk. While unlikely, this could result in no product being delivered to the Contributor. Product design and features are also dependent on the success of the funding phase and are subject to change. By making a Contribution, the Contributor explicitly acknowledges the risks associated with the occurrence of any of the above events.  We have made substantial progress developing the product and will make every effort to achieve our development and production milestones. Your Contribution could make the difference!

Other Ways You Can Help

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