2020 marks the 10th anniversary of InsightFD early wildfire detection system! Insight Robotics team was a market pioneer. We turned the idea of using visual and thermal cameras to detect wildland fire ignition to a working prototype in 2011. After years of working closely with fire crews in different countries, we converted customer inputs to product features. We reinvented the watchtower-replacement CCTV-based operation room tool to AI-based Early Wildfire Detection System. It is Fast, Accurate, Automatic, Resource-Efficient, Intuitive and Versatile (Figure 1).
Fast & Accurate
The purpose-built Dual-Sensor system in InsightFD (Figure 2) enables Fast and Accurate wildfire/forest fire/wildland fire/bushfire detection.
The traditional visual fire detection relies on operators to identify smoke. Environment visibility and light-to-sight may restrict operators from seeing smoke! Furthermore, due to the variability of shape, motion, colors, and patterns of smoke and flames, many existing visual fire detection approaches are susceptible to false alarms.