The Ignis project provides a solution that optimizes safety in wildfires

Through a combination of satellite communications and the use of a UAV, The Ignis Project, led by Hispasat, It offers a solution to improve the safety of the agents involved in a forest fire.

The developments made in the Ignis project allow firefighting work to be carried out in a more efficient and safe way, since all the agents involved will have more reliable data on the situation in real time.

To get these results, Ignis has conducted a demonstration in which it has used the communications of Hispasat To Submit, through a network infrastructure that combines satellite transmission and Wimax, Location and video obtained from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). This information is received in real time at the command posts, making it possible to know more accurately the progress and evolution of the flames and prevent the emergency corps from taking unnecessary risks.

The Ignis project arose from the conclusions obtained in an R+D project, which also had the participation of Hispasat (the Prometheus project), and was responsible for analysing the parameters and processes of satellite remote sensing data, as well as new telecommunications technologies and architectures that would allow nighttime fire extinguishing. Ignis has continued the study begun on Prometheus by developing, in a short space of time, of a system that improves the current telecommunications infrastructures used in firefighting.

Together with Hispasat, Ignis has had the participation of various companies and entities in the sector, as Inaer, Albentia, ISDEFE, the Advanced Center for Aerospace Technologies (FADA-Catec), the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Tecnalia.

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