California turns to AI to help detect wildfires

In an example of the program's potential ALERTCalifornia AI, released last month, a camera detected a fire that started at 3 a.m. local time in the remote Cleveland National Forest.

With people sleeping and darkness hiding the smoke, it could have spread and turned into a raging fire. But the AI ​​alerted the firefighters and, within 45 minutes, the fire was extinguished.

Developed by engineers at the University of California, San Diego and using AI from DigitalPath, the platform has 1.038 cameras installed by various public agencies and energy utilities across the state.

Experts wait that the technology could one day serve as a model for other states and countries around the world, a need urgently felt by forest fires exceptionally devastating in Hawaii, Canada and the Mediterranean this season.

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