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New fire technology detects blaze 10kms away in seconds
By Matt Collins, Sunshine Coast Daily. 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...
Supernova research turned upside down to find fires, fast
By Tom Burton, The Australian Financial Review. 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...
New Fire Technology will help save lives
As featured in "Hello Sunshine" magazine December 2020. 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...
The Power of Cloud Computing to Detect Smoke Before the Fire
By Lexi Reyes, Washintonexec. 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...
AWS launches Project Resilience offering US$5K in credits
By Julia Talevski (ARN). 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. AWS...
Fighting Wildfires Goes High Tech With Laser Drones, Sensors and Satellites
By Mike Cherney, Wall Street Journal. 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. When plantation staff arrived, they found a small man-made...