Brinkschulte emphasizes the urgency of combating climate change, leveraging his extensive telecommunications experience to develop innovative IoT solutions aimed at early wildfire detection, addressing critical societal needs.
"The first was how to detect fires. Instead of relying on vision via satellites and cameras... we focused on smell to catch fires at the early smoldering stage." This approach underlines the innovative direction his company took.
"We built a 'digital nose,' a gas sensor sensitive to hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and volatile organic compounds, with built-in AI to detect fire patterns in a distributed, edge-computing manner." This highlights the underlying technology behind their solution.
Building these sensors happened relatively quickly - but training the AI to work reliably took years. Every forest and tree species smells different when they're burning..." This illustrates the complexity of the technology development process.
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