Programme: Programme "Competitiveness and Innovation in Enterprises" 2021-2027

Last years the forest fires are in all news - in Bulgaria, Europe or other territories. Forest fires cause billions of tons of CO2 and toxic gas emissions per one year, material damages for hundreds of billions of euros, millions of hectares of devastated areas, billions of destroyed animals, human victims. The climate crisis causes a significant increase of the forest fires frequency, resulting in dire consequences for the planet, wild nature, people and livelihoods.

The objectives of the current project are to create a multifunctional sensor for installation in forest that:
- will ensure ultra-early fire detection, at the earliest stage, so as firefighters to have time to extinguish the fire before its spreading out of control.
- will provide information about increased fire risk in given area;

The target groups, that would be interested in the implementation of the sensor, are:
- private forest owners;
- management of state, municipal and church forests, nature parks and hunting farms;
- firefighting authorities;
- insurers;
- national and international projects for environmental protection and climate change prevention;
- system integrators;
- scientific organizations and big data analysts.

The expected results after the implementation of the sensor – subject of the development in this project are:
- saving lives of people and animals
- reduction of CO2 and toxic gas emissions;
- reducing the costs for extinguishing of fires, financial losses, devastated areas, infrastructure and buildings, livelihood losses;
- reduction of risk and insurance costs;
- collection of data for scientific research and analysis;
- improved forest planning;
- accelerated ROI.

The main activities during the project execution are studies, analysis, design, prototyping, testing, validation and demonstration of the sensor in relevant environment.