AI-powered startup helps protect forests from fire

The first 15 minutes are crucial for responding to a fire that has just started, firefighters say, and a Greek startup now ensures the fire service can have all the information it needs to tackle a flame from the first spark. This is Probotek, the company that for the last three summers has protected the Syngrou forest in Kifissia and is now expanding to Greek islands and abroad.

Its novel approach concerns the combination of multiple data that sensors, drones etc. supply with the state-of-the-art technological solutions that tech giant Huawei offers, and forms part of a multitude of simple or complex answers by Probotek to various problems in everyday lives.

So how can this startup protect the forests? What Probotek does is fit sensors on tree trunks and other strategic spots that immediately detect and report smoke and high temperature, or other crucial parameters...