Fire Fighters - Space Apps Challenge

Fire Fighters | Spot That Fire V3.0

Spot That Fire V3.0

Recent wildfires worldwide have demonstrated the importance of rapid wildfire detection, mitigation, and community impact assessment analysis. Your challenge is to develop and/or augment an existing application to detect, predict, and assess the economic impacts from actual or potential wildfires by leveraging high-frequency data from a new generation of geostationary satellites, data from polar-orbiting environmental satellites, and other open-source datasets.

Fire Fighters Spot That Fire V3.0

Summary

In our project, gas and temperature levels will be Monitored over the Internet using ESP8266, MQ2 Gas Sensor and Temperature Sensor. We will measure the quantity of each in percentage and send it over the internet using the thingspeak server. With this system, the data can be monitored remotely through a web application.This last would also provide the option for people who witnessed any burn area to report it; it can localize their position for fast checking and detecting the fires. In addition to that, we linked our web application to Earthdata by NASA to help to identify the areas where the concerned authority needs to put the device.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Forest fires have been a pressing problem for decades in the global and come to limelight only when major incidents like that in the United state, California occur. Forest fires are increasing in number every year and this also indicates the failure of existing systems to detect and prevent such natural disasters. That’s where our project comes from using an IOT device that detects forest fires

How We Developed This Project

For better and early detection and warning in case of forest fires, we got the idea of making a device that can collect real time data and alert messages to the concerned authority. As such, the Forest Fire Unit would have access to statistics and can monitor a live feed from each forest. As we thought that might be the case for some people to be in the burn area, we decided to add the option for them to declare it to the forest fire unit for first aid. Also we can identify their location using their IP address. To help where the device should be located especially for critical areas, we linked the web application to Earthdata. As naturally expected, it is not practical to power up these wireless sensors using electricity or batteries. Hence, it is preferred for these devices to have renewable forms of energy that charge the battery such as solar energy systems.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We have used FIRMS and NASA geostationary satellites to know the areas with high capability of fires,that helped us a lot to identify the areas in which we can implement our device as Amazon forests and New South Wales in Australia.Also we linked the web application with Earthdata.

Project Demo

In case of fire, forest breaks out, a message to the concerned authority is sent first and then the data collected will be uploaded to a web application.

Here is the architecture of our project down below: