FireTree

Inspiration

The past year has seen numerous horrors thanks to massive forest fires, droughts, floods, and other natural disasters. We wanted to see if we could develop a system to gather data and monitor these events for virtually no cost.

What it does

FireTree consists of chains of sensors and transmitters, called branches, using a distributed network to monitor the magnitude of events going on nearby, such as fires via a temperature sensor or power outages via a light detector. This information is then relayed to a database which turns around and uses it to power an API, called the trunk. In the future, roots will be added which will be responsible for assisting in fire management, such as autonomous drones.