up:: [[Home]] tags:: #on/sustainability #on/AI # Firewatch AI - AI-Assisted Wildfire Risk Assessment and Mitigation We're building the data technology to form a "digital twin" of a forest ecosystem, via long-range (LoRa) mesh IoT sensors and cameras. This is then used to analyze climate risk (e.g., wildfire) for the banking and insurance sectors, who are under mandate to have climate risk-adjusted portfolios by April 2025. ![[2024 Foundational Knowledge Stream 1+2 – FW_VISION – Section 3.1 Attachment 1.png]] Much better model output via higher quality data, current model are based on satellite data (6-hour delayed), nearby weather station (5-20 km away), and limited is not no sub-canopy data or distinction in forest microclimates. ### Target Audience Our beachhead customers are Canadian Financial Institutions, Insurance companies, and Enterprises with > 500 employees who have climate-risk or ESG reporting mandates or incentives. ### Follow-up Research Initiatives - A set of digital models of well-monitored ecosystems along climate trajectories (all over the world), yielding high-quality insights and synthetic data. ## Competitors and Alternatives - NVIDIA Earth-2 - Digital climate twin at global scale. - [Riskthinking.ai](http://riskthinking.ai/) - Climate Earth Digital Twin (CDT) - [Climative.ai](http://climative.ai/) - Digital models for building energy management. - WSP - ESG consulting group. - Cinchy - SaaS Data Lakehouse for FIs. - Workiva ESG - ESG frameworks, strategy, and reports builer. - IBM Envizi - ESG framework, metrics, value chain surveys. ## Project Traction - Pending application to NRCAN's May 2024 [RFP for Foundational Wildfire Knowledge and Risk Mitigation](https://natural-resources.canada.ca/our-natural-resources/forests/wildland-fires-insects-disturbances/wildfire-resilient-futures-initiative/build-mobilize-foundational-wildland-fire-knowledge/25689) grant fund. - Pending application to [Vector Institute's Fastlane Accelerator Program](https://vectorinstitute.ai/programs/ai-startup-and-scale-up-program/). ## Team Members - Erin Trochim, PhD. - Francis Wang - Lionel Koh - Maria Smirnova - Sudarshana Bhattacharya