Aurio Tino Francisco and his Precise Operation team provide precision agriculture services to farmers who grow eucalyptus and litchi. These farmers are under the threat of wildfires caused by runaway fires started in nearby farmlands. Aurio is looking for early wildfire detection to help the farmers.
Precise Operation contacted Robotics Cats in late October 2021.
“I am interested to test the LookOut wildfire detection service. I want to see how it works and performs. Would you please advise me on how to set up a LookOut testing envrionment?” said Aurio.
“Sure. We can do simulated or field fire tests. We can do simulated tests now using wildfire images. We need visual cameras for field tests.”
Aurio moves fast! Action is better than words.
COVID-19 and equipment availability slowed down our progress. We finally did some tests in February 2022. Aurio and his team made different tests in different environments to evaluate how LookOut works.