Hitachi Energy is pioneering a new digital solution designed to improve grid resilience against wildfires. The new Wireless SPU Indicator helps utilities to keep important assets available by enabling remote monitoring and improved maintenance and replacement planning. As climate change…
Rosenbauer partners with OroraTech to combat wildfires
Rosenbauer, a worldwide leading fire-service vehicles and firefighting equipment manufacturer, and OroraTech, a leading digital wildfire intelligence service, have entered a strategic partnership to combat the emerging problem of wildfires by means of satellite systems. According to the UN1, the…
Long-range drone Avy Aera tested to fight wildfires
The go-ahead has been initiated for test phases 2 and 3 to detect wildfires with the long-range drone Avy Aera. The Veluwe Forest Fire Committee (VBC) and Avy are jointly investigating the use of drones for the early detection of…
Dryad Networks launches Silvanet, aiming to save 400m tons of CO2 emissions with its ultra-early wildfire detection IoT solution
Environmental IoT start-up Dryad Networks has joined the fight against climate change with the launch of Silvanet, its large-scale IoT network for the ultra-early detection of wildfires and, in a forest near Berlin, successfully conducted the first live demonstration*. Dryad…
Silvflame – a personal journey
Jon Silvester, Creator and Director of Silvflame Silvflame Ltd is a wildfire protection company based in Malvern in the UK. We are in the process of working on wildfire protection systems for emergency vehicles, vital infrastructures, agricultural land, villages, towns,…