fire.
Forestry agencies
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See every ridge of a district on one map, and wake a crew only for a confirmed fire.
Autonomous drones that watch every hillside, day and night.
Concept · 142 km² watched
Platform
One valley. Every patrol, live.
Fleet
6 docks · 3 in the air
- North saddleD-01PatrollingBattery 78%
- East shoulderD-02ChargingBattery 41%
- West benchD-03ReadyBattery 100%
- Ridge 4D-04PatrollingBattery 64%
- South spurD-05PatrollingBattery 83%
- River bendD-06ChargingBattery 52%
Conditions
Valley · now
- Wind
- 18 km/h NE
- Humidity
- 21 %
- Fuel moisture
- 7 %
- Last lightning
- 2 h 10 min ago
- Fire risk
- High · 4 of 5
Last 24 hours
● Patrol windows · now 21:40
Lightning, 14 km west
- Dawn patrol
- Dusk patrol
- Lightning, 14 km west
Concept demo · figures are illustrative
How it works
One alert, five steps.
One alert, in five steps: drones patrol at dusk; a thermal hotspot appears on Ridge 4; the nearest drone flies over to confirm it with its camera; confirmed coordinates go to the crew base; the drone stays until the ground is cold. All figures are a concept demo.
Patrolling, 3 drones, 21:40.
Three views
One map, three ways to read it.
Concept demo · illustrative data
- Forest
- Open ground
- Contour, 50 m
Terrain. Contours, forest and water: where the drones can fly and where the crews can reach.
The dock and the drone
It lives on the ridge. It never needs a pilot.
After every patrol the drone lands in its dock, the lid closes, and the panels on top charge it for the next loop.
Thermal + visual
One gimbal, two lenses
A thermal camera finds heat; the visual camera confirms what it is.
40-minute patrols
≈ 18 km per loop
Dawn, dusk and after every lightning strike.
Weatherproof dock
Rain, snow, wind
Sealed lid and heated landing pad; it waits out a storm.
Solar charging
Panels on the lid
The lid's panels charge the drone between patrols, off-grid.
Concept specs
Who it's for
Built for the people who answer for the forest.
Power utilities
Generated image
Patrol the line corridors through forest on hot, windy nights, without sending a truck.
Landowners
Generated image
One dock per valley watches the land you can't walk every evening.
Fits your dispatch
Alerts arrive where crews already look.
A confirmed alert goes out as a text message, a row on the dispatch desk and an API event, all with the same coordinates.
Text message
Orbit
21:49
ORBIT ALERT · confirmed hotspot
Ridge 4 · 42.31 N, 1.12 E
61 °C · watched by D-04
Reply 1 to acknowledge
Dispatch desk
Time Location Type Status Unit 21:49 Ridge 4 Hotspot Confirmed Crew 2 19:31 West bench Lightning Patrolled — API event
{ "event": "hotspot.confirmed", "time": "21:49:06", "place": "Ridge 4", "lat": 42.31, "lon": 1.12, "temp_c": 61, "drone": "D-04", "feed": "…/d-04/live" }
Concept demo · illustrative message, row and event
In numbers
What one valley takes.
- from heat reading to crew alert
- 2 min from heat reading to crew alertConcept figure
- watched per dock
- 2,400 ha watched per dockConcept figure
- patrols per dock per day, plus one after lightning
- 3 patrols per dock per day, plus one after lightningConcept figure
- docks for a 142 km² valley
- 6 docks for a 142 km² valleyConcept figure
FAQ
Questions crews ask first.
Yes. The thermal camera doesn't need daylight, and night is when a smouldering spot shows most clearly against cool ground. Dusk and dawn patrols are the default; operators can add night loops.
The drone stays in its sealed dock when wind or rain is beyond its limits, and the console shows which loops are paused and why. Patrols resume on their own when conditions allow.
A heat reading alone never wakes a crew. The nearest drone flies over to look with both cameras first; only a confirmed hotspot becomes an alert, with the images attached.
In this concept, drones fly fixed loops that the operator has cleared with the aviation authority beforehand. A real deployment would need those permissions in every region it covers.
The cameras look for heat, not people. In this concept, footage is kept only for confirmed alerts, and the loops avoid homes where the operator marks them as no-film zones.
Nothing: Orbit is a design concept by Nova Digital Studio, not a product you can buy. The numbers on this page are illustrative.
Every hillside, watched.
Six docks, six loops, one quiet valley at night.
Concept demo · computer-generated