The best camera is the one that's with you Fig 1: LookOut Cam app repurposes an old smartphone as a wildfire detection visual sensor. The first public demo was shown to the Go Austria Spring 2022 cohorts at the Zoku Vienna Hotel on 27th May 2022. You can now use…

Did you know? Mai Po and the Inner Deep Bay provide food and habitat for over 60,000 birds from more than 400 species each year. Fig 1: Mai Po Nature Reserve. Source: WWF-Hong Kong Located on the northwestern corner of Hong Kong, the Mai Po and Inner Deep Bay wetlands…

It is an honor for us to participate in the CITRIS Workforce Innovation Program. Three brilliant University of California (UC) undergrads will be joining RoboticsCats as interns this summer. They will apply their knowledge in environmental sciences and engineering in a climatetech startup environment. They will add diversity, new perspectives,…

It is our honor that RoboticsCats is one of the 17 Asia deep tech startups participating in the Go Austria Spring 2022 program organized by Global Incubator Network Austria (GIN). I will join the other entrepreneurs to visit Vienna this June to meet potential customers and business partners in Austria…

LookOut wildfire detection SaaS now supports live web photos as image inputs. LookOut will detect early-stage wildfires in web images. There are tens of thousands of websites that provide live photos (updated every few seconds or minutes) captured by surveillance cameras in different parts of the world. Some photos show…

좋은 아침. The land area of South Korea (Republic of Korean) is about 10.0Mha. According to GlobalForestWatch and FOA, there was 6.18Mha of forest in South Korea in 2015, and 3.46Mha was primary forest. There are eight provinces in South Korea, and three of them - Gangwon (1.33Mha), North Gyeongsang…

We worked with our partners to conduct fire tests in different markets over the years - Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, Portugal, Latvia, Greece, etc. We did fire tests for several purposes: product evaluations, UAT (user acceptance test), annual product maintenance, and AI model training. We…

Ola. It is our pleasure to partner with Precise Operation to provide LookOut wildfire detection service in Mozambique. There are serious forest fire problems in Africa. 489 million hectares of land burned in Africa in 2016, about 16% of the continent’s total area. 80% of the wildfires are small fires…

In January 2022, our partner CIEMSA deployed new LookOut wildfire detection systems in Uruguay. We teamed up with CIEMSA to deploy the first LookOut wildfire detection system in Uruguay last June. LookOut worked off-the-shelf in Uruguay. LookOut detected many prescribed fires in Piriapolis. The detection performance was outstanding. CIEMSA and…

Sveiki! 2022 is an exciting year! We start the journey from Latvia with a new role. We are one of the ten SilvaTech Growth Accelerator cohorts! SilvaTech is a free international startup acceleration program powered by JSC Latvia's State Forests (LVM) and Startup Wise Guys (SWG) accelerator to promote innovation…