Autonomous aerial systems that detect fires the moment they ignite — and one day, strike them before they spread.
There is no cheap, always-on, autonomous system that watches for fires before they become uncontrollable. By the time a fire is confirmed, it has already grown.
Global coverage, but passes every 6–12 hours at low resolution, with no real-time alerting.
Continuous monitoring, but fixed coverage radius and requires dense deployment with direct line of sight.
Flexible and high-resolution, but grounded in poor weather, not available 24/7, and reactive rather than proactive.
The prototype proves detection works. The roadmap moves from watching a fire to acting on one.
A drone-mounted thermal camera scans continuously and streams live heat data over a private long-range radio link to a ground dashboard — no internet, no cellular, no cloud dependency.
● Working PrototypeRemove the human pilot. GPS-tagged fire reporting, autonomous flight paths, and a fleet of drones patrolling a defined territory around the clock — reporting position and status back to the ground station.
○ Next UpA tube-launched, folding-wing swarm deploys from a mountaintop mothership station. Each unit glides to an assigned hotspot, refines its aimpoint with an onboard thermal seeker, and delivers fire suppressant — knocking down spot fires in the first critical minutes.
○ In DesignThe entire pipeline is self-contained. Both devices auto-connect and start streaming on boot — no manual setup, no cloud, no internet.
Reads 768 temperature points 4× per second. Detects heat invisible to the human eye.
Onboard Pi processes the stream and transmits over a private radio link.
900 MHz link carries data kilometers with no cellular coverage needed.
Second Pi hosts a live web dashboard accessible from any browser.
Operator is alerted instantly when temperature exceeds threshold.
FireWatch is pre-revenue and not currently for sale. This is the direction the business is expected to take as it matures.
Turnkey detection systems sold to government agencies and industrial operators. Ship, deploy, support.
Ongoing aerial coverage subscriptions. Fleet of drones, cloud alerting backend, SLA-backed response.
Aggregate thermal data across deployments. License algorithms or sell API access to insurers and agencies.