FireShield

FireShield Intelligence

A fire map tells you where the fire is. FireShield decides what to do about it.

Every fire app can put a dot on a map. FireShield combines every source into one picture, works out how likely each spot around your house is to burn, works out which side the fire is coming from — and turns that into water on the right side of the house, automatically.

Every live fire in the region, and the wind carrying it — the inputs behind which side gets water first.

Beyond the fire map

What FireShield does that a fire map can’t

MapShows a fire three miles away.

FireShieldWorks out how likely it is to reach your property, how soon, and from which side.

MapShows four agencies’ reports of the same fire and leaves you to figure out they are the same fire.

FireShieldRecognizes them as one incident, so one fire is never counted as four.

MapColors your whole area the same.

FireShieldGives every coordinate around the house its own burn probability, recomputed continuously.

MapLeaves the decision to you, wherever you are.

FireShieldStarts the system on its own at the distance and countdown set for your house, and lets you send the water to the zones facing the fire.

From many feeds to one answer

Five steps between a satellite and a valve at your house

  1. 01

    Take every source

    Satellite thermal detections, wildfire cameras, government perimeters, premium fire-data services and on-the-ground detections. A boundary around a fire and a single hot pixel both matter; neither is enough alone.

  2. 02

    Put it in one format

    Every source reports fires in its own format and units. We convert them all to one format, and we can add new sources without changing the rest of the system.

  3. 03

    Spot duplicate reports

    When several sources report the same fire, we combine them into one, so the decision is based on the actual fire, not duplicate reports.

  4. 04

    Compute the hazard

    Our risk model considers fire location, wind, fuel and terrain, plus burn history, drought, forecast, access roads, concurrent fires, suppression resources and nearby water.

  5. 05

    Act

    The risk map is used two ways: to turn on the sprinklers at your property, and to show where firefighting help is needed across the wider area.

Engineering drawing: fire data sources flowing through ingestion, normalization and de-duplication into the hazard analysis engine, a burn-probability surface, and outputs to the controller and to response resources
The decision chain, from our patent.

Directional defense

It knows which side of the house the fire is coming from

The risk map shows more than how close the fire is. Together with the fire’s path and the wind, it shows which direction the fire will come from.

So the water does not have to go everywhere at once. You can choose the zones facing the fire for the next start, so your limited water goes to the side about to be hit, not the side that isn’t. Directing the water from the risk map automatically is covered by our patent.

Engineering drawing: a grid of burn-probability values around a protected house, high near the fire and brush, with the fire approach vector and wind direction
Burn probability, cell by cell, with the fire’s approach and the wind — from our patent.

Beyond one house

The same picture can direct a whole response

The same risk map that starts the sprinklers at one home can also show where response resources will matter most across a neighborhood, a portfolio or a region. For communities and agencies it is a shared, continuously updated view of where the hazard is heading; for insurers it is verified, property-level evidence of risk and mitigation.

Automatic, but you stay in control

It starts on its own, but you can always override it.

  • A delay set for your house

    When a fire gets within your activation distance, a countdown starts and you get an alert on your phone. Our technician sets the length of the countdown at installation.

  • Cancel any time

    Stop it from the app during the countdown or while it runs.

  • Start it yourself

    One tap in the app, the button on the wall, or a local trigger.

  • No cloud required

    Local and remote triggers are designed to work even when networks are down, and after a power cut it picks up where it left off.

No model can promise what a particular fire will do. What it does is check every source at once, all the time, and start the system while you are still evacuating.