Indra Faedo demonstrates its effectiveness and accuracy in early fire detection

This solution, composed of network cameras with thermal sensor and smoke detector, allows you to monitor large areas of forest, day and night, and detect small pockets of fire early and automatically, without having to have a line of view with them.

The tech company Indra has shown the technological improvements and advances offered by its Faedo system during the last Spanish Forestry Congress (7Cfe), recently organized in Palencia by the Spanish Society of Forestry Sciences (SECF), which reduces by a 40% the number of fires and a 30% the average area burned, according to data submitted by Pablo Fernández and Fernando Aller, engineers of this company, who highlighted the technology's ability to monitor the forest 24/7 and detect fire early to quell it before it spreads into an emergency.

To achieve this, Indra has integrated visual smoke detection with thermal detection into the same solution, allowing you to measure the temperature of columns of smoke to determine if behind a hill or accident there may be fire. Like this, Faedo is able to detect small pockets of fire both day and night, with a residual percentage of false alarms.

As you've already advanced Digital Security Magazine, the Faedo system consists of a series of cameras, each with a range of 20 Kilometers, that are placed in surveillance turrets and send real-time information to a control center.

The operator has in this center an integrated view of what is happening in the forest. The system presents you with the alarms and shows, on a 3D model of the terrain, the exact location of the fire. It also provides you with the information you need to plan the sunset operation, helping you decide the best way to access, where the troops should be placed, where you have water or which nearby populations may be affected.

As a mobility solution, controllers moving to the area can connect to the system via the Internet using a browser. Moreover, Faedo's simulation tools help the operator analyze how the situation will evolve based on weather conditions. Once the fire is controlled, the system will help you identify where it started and the possible causes.

Indra engineers stressed in Faedo's presentation that "monitoring the forest is a year-round task", since, according to official data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and environment (MAPAMA), over the past decade analyzed, March has been the second most sinister month of the year, only behind August. In addition, a high percentage of intentional fires occur among the 21:00 and the 2:00 h in the early morning, when there's less surveillance and the air media can't act.

Both experts also said that "visual and thermal camera-based systems are the most widespread solution for automatic fire detection worldwide", and cited the case of Germany, where they have been deployed 175 such surveillance posts that have helped to reduce 40% the number of fires in the covered area and a 30% the average area burned.

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