DENVER — The Bear Creek Fire in Douglas County, which was contained within a day, was first spotted by cameras equipped with artificial intelligence (AI).
Pano AI is a California-based company that aims to provide wildfire detection through cameras equipped with AI.
“We do this by installing high-definition security cameras on mountaintop locations like cell towers, and we rotate the cameras 360 degrees every minute, looking for the first signs of a fire, both day and night, using artificial intelligence,” said Sonia Kastner, co-founder and CEO of Pano AI. “This allows us to push out alerts to emergency managers and to enterprise customers so they can take action and contain fires while they’re still small… Some fires will show up first with the camera detection, some will show up first with the satellite. That’s why we use the best of both worlds.”
Since Pano AI was founded in 2020, it’s detected more than 100,000 fires, according to Kastner.
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