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ForestGuard is building the ‘Internet of Trees’ to detect fires even earlier
Many startups have taken aim at the problem of early wildfire detection and prevention, but Turkey-based ForestGuard’s space-based system could give it an
ForestGuard, which presented onstage today as part of the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt, was founded by trained architects Muhammed Ali Örnek and Suat Batuhan Esirger, who witnessed the need for early detection firsthand after seeing the devastating effects of wildfires across Turkey in 2021. The pair realized that more could be done to detect wildfires at the earliest stages, and that many currently available systems that use thermal sensors or satellites are limited by the need for the hardware to be in line-of-sight to communicate. Satellite connectivity is not any more expensive compared to LoRa or GSM, a cellular network protocol, because each device sends such small packets of data, the company explained.
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