MICRO-PRECISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC. — Department of Agriculture SBIR Phase I: 8.1

Description

The program objective is to build test and deploy the GeoFire Real-Time Wildfire Alert System(WAS) to definitively answer where a wildfire is right now and where it is heading next. This isaccomplished by using a high-density sensor network to track the location and growth of individualwildfire cells in real time. The GeoFire WAS is designed for exceptionally reliable operation:accurate fire detection without false alarms autonomous operation without human-in-the-loopinteraction sufficient resiliency to tolerate the failure of individual sensors without compromisingsystem coverage and rugged hardware construction for 10+ year lifetime operation in all weatherconditions. With its combination of spatial resolution response time accuracy and fault tolerancethe GeoFire WAS is intended to augment existing ground- and satellite-based wildfire detectionsystems.When deployed in target areas such as residential neighborhoods at the wildland urban interface(WUI) industrial and commercial campuses or high-voltage power lines the system deliverscommunity and asset protection at an unprecedented scale which allows government andcommercial stakeholders to make timely and effective decisions about wildfire mitigation efforts toprevent property loss and loss of life. These unique capabilities demonstrate that the system isresponsive to the needs of USDA for the detection management and risk reduction of wildfires.