New Castle, DE – New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer announced a partnership with Wilmington, Del. based data company CompassRed to provide a detailed solution for county residents to monitor COVID-19 particles in New Castle County sewers. The dashboard, updated weekly with the most recent data BioBot provides, offers a number of useful tools to visualize data, such as color-coded maps which highlight the Estimated Prevalence Rate (EPR) and estimated cases. The website is biobot.nccde.org.
“We are thankful for the work CompassRed is doing to help our citizens visualize the information provided by the New Castle County environmental engineering team and BioBot,” County Executive Meyer said. “CompassRed has accomplished a challenging task, taking multiple data sets and visualizing them for both public and healthcare consumption, with a focus on mapping and trend spotting communication to the public at large.”
“We’re a strong believer that data can provide insight, and in this case, can save lives,” CompassRed Co-Founder Patrick Callahan said. “This is a great opportunity to work with New Castle County on an innovative program related to COVID-19 and we hope that our partnership has the potential to affect the curve.”
This April, New Castle County entered into a partnership with Cambridge, Mass. based BioBot, in which BioBot would test one of New Castle County’s busiest wastewater treatment plants for evidence of the COVID-19 virus. The county has since expanded testing to 12 pump stations and wastewater treatment plant locations. BioBot currently tests over 400 wastewater plants in 42 states and has previously been recognized for the novel use of wastewater testing methods to track opioid abuse.
About CompassRed
CompassRed is a data and artificial intelligence company headquartered in Wilmington, Del. with offices in Wilmington and Philadelphia.
About BioBot
BioBot is the first company to commercialize data collected from wastewater and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.