One of only four teams remaining from more than 130 competitors worldwide, our team AURA Foresight is developing autonomous technology to stop wildfires before they grow out of control.
AURA Foresight has been selected as a finalist in the prestigious XPRIZE Wildfire Autonomous Wildfire Response competition, emerging as one of just four teams remaining from more than 130 teams from around the world.
XPRIZE Wildfire is a four-year, US$11 million global competition designed to accelerate breakthrough technologies capable of ending destructive wildfires. The Autonomous Wildfire Response track, worth US$5 million, challenges teams to autonomously detect, verify and respond to wildfire ignitions across a 1,000 km² landscape within just ten minutes. The finals will take place in Nenana, Alaska, where teams will demonstrate their technologies in realistic wildfire response scenarios.
Being selected as a finalist places AURA Foresight among a small group of innovators developing the next generation of tools to help communities, land managers and firefighters respond to wildfires faster and more effectively.
As wildfires become more frequent and severe worldwide, AURA Foresight is developing technology that helps stop fires before they become disasters. The team’s autonomous wildfire intelligence and intervention system is designed to detect ignitions within minutes and coordinate a rapid response while fires are still small and manageable.
