VirtualFire| Spot That Fire V3.0
Spot That Fire V3.0
Real-Time Fire Detection System and Fire-fighter Drone
Summary
The current way in which wildfires are dealt with is slow and unsafe for firefighters, in addition to the increasing number of wildfires in recent years. The need to find a solution to this problem has increased too. That’s the reason why the VirtualFire team has created a project with drones, faster than firefighters, and a real-time system that gets informed more precisely and faster.
How We Addressed This Challenge
We develop a web based real-time system that detects all the wildfires around a certain location and, when NASA’s EONET API informs us about a new fire, sends a signal to the manager of the drones to be activated and then sended to attack the wildfire.
The designed drone has a mechanism that will drop the blanket on the trees, suffocating the fire. The served trees are selected by an algorithm that determines which side of the fire it’s more susceptible to being affected, then, the drones will go to the selected areas to create a firewall breach.
How We Developed This Project
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
We have chosen NASA EONET data to develop our application because it provides a clear and precise format that fits our solution. The way we used it was mainly to get the geolocation of the wildfires. However, we plan to use a more detailed API to get advanced data about the attended wildfire so the drones can get precisely locations to create a more efficient firewall breach.
Project Demo
We used the EONET API that has data in JSON format, then developed a web app that uses Google Maps. We used SolidWorks to design the Drone prototypes