Castile and Leon: High-speed wildfire video surveillance network

Merino Telecommunications And Cambium Networks They have deployed the high-speed communications network to support more than a hundred forest fire video surveillance cameras in this Spanish autonomous community.

This network of High-Speed Wildfire Video Surveillance of Merino Telecommunications And Cambium Networks Connect more than a hundred cameras, distributed in natural areas of Ávila, Salamanca, Zamora, León and Soria, whose images will be analysed in the Scayle supercomputer, which is located on the campus of the University of León, with a system based on artificial intelligence to identify the location of the fire.

The project, that runs with ERDF funds, is led by the Natural Heritage Foundation, dependent on the Ministry of the Environment, Housing and Spatial Planning of the Junta de Castilla y León, and involves the updating and expansion of the network that was deployed between 2006 And 2016.

This action aims to address one of the main consequences of climate change in this autonomous community and, in general, in Mediterranean countries, such as the increased risk and severity of wildfires due to rising temperatures and periods of drought, to avoid the loss of economic resources, biodiversity and soil, as well as large amounts of CO₂ to the atmosphere.

The León-based company Telecomunicaciones Merino has been in charge of deploying a new high-speed wireless network based on Cambium Networks' technology and equipment, supplied by Sistelec, to which the video surveillance cameras, IP Communications System, IoT devices and other services.

The installed video surveillance cameras monitor an area around each location, within a radius of 8 To 25 Km, depending on the characteristics of the system. These devices make it easier to Real-time visualization of the fire and the affected area, as well as the verification of the alerts received in the Provincial Command Centers (CPM) To avoid false alarms, reducing the deployment of unnecessary resources.

The network will also interconnect the Monitoring Equipment and other technological devices for the different fire coordination centers, such as CPMs, The Autonomous Community, The Twenty-One Bases of the Heliborne Brigades (ELIF) and the four forward command posts (WFP).

The new equipment deployed in the five provinces of Castilla y León is made up of eighty Peer-to-peer IP links High Capacity; fifty 360º IP cameras high-definition; Twenty-five systems of Photovoltaic power supply and eighteen Lattice towers.

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