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Case Study

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How OpenWeb Ninja Powers Real-Time Safety Alerts for 300K+ People in Ireland

A volunteer-led team in Cork, Ireland built a real-time public safety alert system reaching 300K+ people daily - powered by the OpenWeb Ninja Waze API.

Cork Safety Alerts|Waze API

Public Safety · Real-Time Traffic Data · Local News & Digital Media

The Challenge

Cork Safety Alerts is a volunteer-run digital news source based in Cork, Ireland. Since 2013, their small team of five administrators has kept over 300K+ people informed about live traffic incidents, road conditions, breakdowns, and local emergencies across Cork city and county.

As their audience grew, so did the demand for faster, more reliable data. They needed a solution that could continuously pull real-time traffic information across multiple geographic regions - without delays, and without the complexity of building their own data infrastructure from scratch.

The Solution

Cork Safety Alerts integrated OpenWeb Ninja's Waze API into their alert system. Their system now polls 12 distinct regions across Cork every 60 seconds, automatically fetching live incident data from Waze. The team then reviews and verifies each report - cross-referencing with other sources and confidence scores - before surfacing it to their audience.

The Results

300K+

People receiving live alerts

Regions polled across Cork

60 sec

Data refresh interval

Why It Works

The Waze API delivers high-frequency, real-world traffic data at a level of granularity that is difficult to replicate with other sources. For a service like Cork Safety Alerts - where the value is in the speed and accuracy of information - this matters enormously.

By polling 12 Cork regions independently every 60 seconds, the system can detect and surface localized incidents faster than manual monitoring would allow. The result is a more responsive, more reliable service for the hundreds of thousands of Cork residents who depend on it daily.

Technical Overview

API: OpenWeb Ninja Waze API
Polling frequency: Every 60 seconds
Regions covered: 12 regions across Cork city and county
Data: Real-time traffic incidents, breakdowns, road conditions
Integration: Automated polling via Cork Safety Alerts' backend system

Need real-time traffic data?

Whether you're building a public safety tool, a fleet monitoring system, or a traffic-aware application - the OpenWeb Ninja Waze API gives you live incidents, jams, and road conditions across any geographic area, from Waze in real-time.

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