Fireball International.
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An innovative device created as a response to the 2019 Peregian fires has proven its worth.

Coast company Fireball.International installed a test camera at the Peregian Digital Hub in November last year to monitor the bushland for fires.

By Tom Burton, The Australian Financial Review.
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Australian space intelligence company Fireball International is using real-time satellite images, ground cameras, sensors and powerful artificial intelligence to find bushfires within minutes, dramatically cutting emergency response times.

As featured in “Hello Sunshine” magazine December 2020.
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September 9, 2019 started like any other day. It was hot and dry and the grass, bereft of life, crunched underfoot. Much like the rest of Australia, the Sunshine Coast had not seen good rainfall in months and the conditions were now perfect for what was to unfold later that day.

By Lexi Reyes, Washintonexec.
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Cloud computing remains a catalyst for critical cross-sector capabilities like real-time data analytics, artificial intelligence and large-volume data acquisition and management — and experts spanning various industries agree putting data to use can help catapult government’s adoption of next-generation technologies.

By Julia Talevski (ARN).
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched Project Resilience in Australia, offering US$5000 in credits to eligible local government, education, and small community organisations to help prepare them in facing natural and man-made disasters.

By Mike Cherney, Wall Street Journal.
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SYDNEY—In October, a sensor mounted on a 28-foot pole in the Australian countryside detected small particles in the air near a timber plantation and sent out an alert.

Protecting the community is at the heart of what Fireball.International does. A global company based locally at the Digital Hub in Peregian Beach, Directors Chris & Gabrielle Tylor were devastated when the fires threatened to engulf the area late last year.

Measuring the economic impact of early bushfire detectionThe fires that occurred over the 2019/20 Australian summer were unprecedented in scale and had a devastating impact on large parts of Australia. In this paper we estimate the economic costs of bushfires between...

by Rachael Meyer, Mongabay News.
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In mid-October, 1991, a wildfire swept across the hillsides of northern Oakland, California, killing 25 people and injuring 150 more. By the time it was under control, around 1,500 acres of wildlands and urban areas had been scorched, including 3,000 homes.

University of Southern Queensland
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Fireball.International, a start-up company based in Peregian Beach, is using satellites and sensors on towers to detect fires when they are still very small and much easier to extinguish.