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this is not investment this is where we intended well we're going to stay until we die you know I'm saying there are about 8,400 vacant properties in the city of Louisville Kentucky and they can cause problems for homeowners like George and Gail Drummond live next door to an abandoned house I went around to the back and I voted up some stuff because they had torn it off now my problem is they're going back there and they're using drugs evidence is back there a lot of vacant property fires are caused by squatters or legal activity and by the time of neighbor notices a fire started in a vacant property it's often too late back some time ago we were in a house and the neighbor across the street looked at over at that house and he saw flashing flames if he hadn't been sitting on his porch what would have happened because we were in the house we really didn't think about the city turned to the local civic hacker community for a solution to vacant property fires Casper is a device that listens for smoke detectors sometimes we call it a smoke detector detector and it's basically what it is it's got a microphone it listens for the specific frequency that smoke detectors a signal app and then it sends a signal to the cloud using a cell modem and we process that flag and we send a text message and calls out to city government to myself to neighbors and they get a notification that says this vacant house is on fire it needs attention let's take care of the problem before it becomes a bigger problem the city has placed to caspers and smoke detectors in 8 abandoned houses to test the system solar panels keep the caspere's running and you can see them in the windows or hanging from the awnings of the test houses cancer is a great idea thus far we haven't had any problem with it and it would be great to see it funded and rolled out to all of our vacant Metro properties especially in neighborhoods in areas that have a high number of vacancies it's a good thing for that alone to be up there because we land up in your sleep and we don't know until the fire truck is out here flashing red use I'm saying the pilot program runs through March then the city will decide if it's worth while to put more caspere's in vacant houses throughout Louisville the more devices we can put inside these houses the more coverage you have in a neighborhood and that helps people feel safer and feel better about their their living situation it would just break my heart if I come on that side of my house in front of my house and finds out at least we know somebody's looking out for some and and trying to do something