Ethan Jackson

May 4, 2021

Microsoft’s Premonition platform—a winner of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards—tracks, captures, and analyzes mosquitoes, to give health officials a sense of what pathogens are circulating in the area.

September 23, 2020

As COVID-19 drags on, a big question is how best to prevent major spread of the next pandemic? At Microsoft, they're looking to the Azure-based Premonition Cloud, a global sensor network and data pool that analyzes bug activity for signs…

September 22, 2020

Five years after launching an experiment to see if advanced sensors and artificial intelligence could spot the signs of a disease outbreak before it happens, Microsoft says it’s ramping up Project Premonition to create an honest-to-goodness biothreat protection network.

September 22, 2020

During Ignite 2020, Microsoft took the wraps off its efforts to detect pathogens before they cause widespread outbreaks. Applying learnings from Premonition, a five-year epidemiological project spearheaded by Microsoft Healthcare, the company hopes to employ a combination of robotics, cloud…

September 22, 2020

At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced that Premonition, a robotics and sensor platform for monitoring and sampling disease carriers like mosquitos and a cloud-based software stack for analyzing samples, will soon be in private preview.

September 22, 2020

"What’s the weather like outside?” It’s a simple question, that we don’t think twice about. Our smart assistants, phones or a simple internet search can answer it. But it actually takes a global sensor network of weather stations, advanced data…

June 10, 2015

Project Permonition aims to create a worldwide system for collection and genomic analysis of mosquitoes, capable of detecting potential pathogens and their geographic spread, before they cause disease in the human population.