1. INTRODUCTION

Estimates indicate the human achieved the mastery of fire over 400,000 years ago, which is one of the greatest achievements of mankind. On the other hand, incidents caused by uncontrolled flames generated naturally or accidentally cause victims and destroy ecosystems until today.

Arising from a variety of factors, small fires in one location can become large fires at high speeds, which makes it difficult to properly react to combat or escape for nearby residents. In this context, the development of truly effective alerts can mobilize the emergency to many people in real time, this is a crucial point in reducing material losses and human lives.

Accordingly, the Fire Trackers system proposes: Using existing crossing data to generate alerts, to provide guidance for potential victims and interact with the appropriate authorities, everything in real time and interactively, in order to prevent deaths caused by fire.

Despite being structured in an application, the system has as its differential, the ability to include people outside this platform, using the existing communication networks, to send alerts to anyone near the danger zone, just that it has a even a simple mobile device.

In addition, the system also brings fourth other functionalities like security information, useful telephone numbers, inside chat in the plataform, channel with security instructions directly from governamental institutions and safe zone, all of that, to mitigate the damage from big fires and save lives.

2. HOW IT WORKS

FIRE TRACKERS is an app that integrates information from wildfire outbreaks, in near real time from data obtained by NASA FIRMS through observations from MODIS and VIIRS satellites. Being made the crossing of information with textual data extracted from social networks, such as hashtags and keywords that characterize the occurrence of a fire in a certain area using machine learning. As well as the interaction with report a fire by app users being able to enter the location and scope of the event. One of the main features of the app is to trigger alerts to people who will be affected by the area of influence of the event, being possible to indicate the direction and speed in which the fire spreads. The great advantage of this application is the possibility of sending alerts to all types of mobile phone users, from Smarthphones to ordinary mobile phones without internet access and GPS service, this will be possible from the connection of the app with telephone companies. Which will send text and voice messages alerting any mobile phone user in risky areas.

3. WORKING PRINCIPLES

Satellite Remote Sensing (NASA FIRMS - MODIS and VIIRS Satellites) / Machine Learning - Social Network Information Tracking / User Interaction - APP / Connections with Mobile Operators Responsible for Message Triggering and Voice Alerting to mobile.

4. INNOVATIVE / DIFFERENTIAL POINTS

The great functionality of the project is to enable the fire alert from the partner with mobile operators without internet connection and the installation of the app, allowing the arrival of the alert in rural and distant areas, provided there is a telephone network. Alerts will be sent from text and voice messages mainly only to phones in the region of fire influence.

The APP has a chat for interaction between people who are near the fire area, and can interact between them and the responsible authorities (inform potential injured, dead or any relevant information) by sending audios, photos and text messages.

The APP allows the user to project their location in relation to the fire, smoke arrival forecast and the amount of alerts by other users in the immediate vicinity.

SAFETY TIPS, the app features a contact list of competent authorities that can be contact (Firemen, samu, civil defense among others), as well as a list of procedures that can be taken to prevent exposure to risk.

The checkpoint function enables competent authorities to establish safe places where people can move and protect themselves. From marking this point the application can generate the best route of fire to the security point indicating through the map to users.

Location map display interface with real time satellite imagery.