Challenge

The news of these days reminds us that wood fires are a serious and constant threat not only for our territory.

The Municipality of Carini, of the Metropolitan city of Palermo in Sicily, of 38,800 inhabitants, has decided to invest in the monitoring and prevention of wood fires in its territory. The attention of the Municipal Administration towards these frequent phenomena, especially in summer, is very high and this has made the collaboration with Italtel particularly fruitful for the adoption of the forest fire prevention system, created as part of RE-ACTOR, a project born from the collaboration between Italtel and the Municipality of Carini. In fact, the technologies available today help to promptly detect fire outbreaks, collect useful data to make correct assessments, direct intervention actions.

Solution

The wood fire monitoring project has as its objective the timely detection of fire outbreaks, through comparisons of images obtained from pivoting thermal imaging cameras, and the reporting of the specific environmental conditions that may favor the onset, as well as allowing to simulate, using the environmental data collected, the probable evolution of an existing fire, determining the area that could be involved and reporting potential critical issues.

The system is able to identify fire outbreaks in areas of less than half a square meter, with latency times of a few minutes and a reliability of over 95% in a detection range of approximately 5 km for each thermal imager. Purchased data from thermal imaging cameras is processed locally, at the edge of the network.