DANTE

DANTE is the integrated low-cost solution for the early detection of wildfires that has received the awards Copernicus Masters 2017 and ESNC 2017. These are international competitions established on the initiative of ESA, GSA and the Copernicus Programme in which DANTE was rated as a business innovation to address EU challenges and an investment opportunity. DANTE is a prompt alarm system which features advanced methods to report and manage a fire within seconds of its starting. It provides the exact geo-referred coordinates of the fire source, tracks accurately the fire as it evolves and guides the firefighting extinguishing operations as a real-time navigator. The system is compatible with existing emergency control rooms and is managed remotely from either the control room or a smartphone with internet connectivity. DANTE has the potential to halve the yearly budget of public and private entities dedicated to wildfires extinction and detection (estimated to be of 10,600 million Euros extrapolating EM-DAT database).

The Horizon 2020 DANTE project developed an integrated low-cost solution for the early detection of wild fires. Researchers devised an alarm system featuring advanced methods for reporting and managing a fire within seconds of it starting. Fire is detected by image processing algorithms and an alarm is sent remotely to the control room within seconds of the blaze starting. Researchers created a series of prototypes embedded in inexpensive hardware platforms, drawing interest from potential clients and intended end-users.