Open Innovation Challenge: Selected Solutions

Tree Angel by Global Smart Rescue

• Country: France

Strategically located environmental sensors for effective area monitoring. Measured data is first analyzed within the sensor, before being sent in real time to a hybrid (3G / satellite) communication gateway.

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Trigan: Responsive & Collaborative Wildfire Preparedness

• Tested in: Norway-Sweden,
• Country: UK
• Innovation type: Engagement and Empowerment, Forecasting and Decision Support, Training and Education,

We transform wildfire preparedness through AI-assisted, decentralised coordination; focusing on community-specific risk assessment, resource sharing, and tailored funding for effective, bottom-up planning, response strategies and immediate enactment.

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Typhoon Firefighting System

• Tested in: Norway-Sweden,
• Country: Greece
• Innovation type: Management Before, During and After Extreme Wildfire Events ,

TYPHOON is a fire extinguishing system with a powerful cenntrifugal blower that produces a long range air-water stream with very high extinguishing efficiency and advanced handling capabilities.

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W4I Fire-Cylon

• Country: France
• Innovation type: Management Before, During and After Extreme Wildfire Events , Monitoring,

The Cylon is set up on a vehicle facing a wildfire: the box gains quantities as temperature, air moisture, heat radiation, wind, gas concentration and transmits them by radio communication protocols

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Water supply to firetrucks and fire helicopters in wildfires

• Country: Israel
• Innovation type: Management Before, During and After Extreme Wildfire Events ,

The FlexCon (TM) and the HeliPack (TM) are ideal solutions to minimize the time that firetrucks and fire helicopters are spending on traveling to and from the water re-filling area.

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Wildfire awareness videos

• Tested in: Chile,
• Country: Portugal
• Innovation type: Risk Communication and Awareness,

Create and disseminate clear, factual demonstration videos of wildfire risks that could be easily reduced by citizens through behavioural change

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Wildflyer – Wildfire Intelligence

• Tested in: Nouvelle Aquitaine- France,
• Country: Netherlands
• Innovation type: Forecasting and Decision Support,

Wildflyer is developing an easy-to-use wildfire intelligence application. It is designed to help fire suppression teams create easy fire forecasts, situation overviews during incidents and easy post-fire reports.

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