Project Details

Awards & Nominations

FIREXXI has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Local Peoples' Choice Winner

The Challenge | Spot That Fire V2.0

Your challenge is to create an application that leverages NASA's near-real-time and archival wildfire datasets along with other tools to support firefighting and fire mitigation efforts. This challenge builds on last year’s challenge of the same name by calling for innovative ideas and apps that focus on how to engage and enable citizens to assist with the entire firefighting and fire mitigation process.

WOFIEX "The World's Fire Extinguisher"

People can inform themselves easily with our app, not only does it bring immediate help to assist fires, it connects volunteers and common people with their local Fire Department, it alerts and warns them, it improves their nature and fire knowledge.

FIREXXI

1. COSTUMER SEGMENTS

-Every person who owns a smartphone.

2. PROBLEM

-Internet users submit content to different social media about emergencies (in this case, forest fires); that content should be summarized in one place only, so that it can become a helping tool to others.

3. UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION

-An app where it can be possible to publish multimedia content, properly filtered, about forests fires, which serves as an alert/alarm system for Emergency Institutions.

4. SOLUTION

-Summarize all photos and videos from the internet in one place/app.

-Alert other internet users about fires.

-Help make Emergency Institutionsʼ work easier and more efficient.

5. CHANNELS

-Publicity in social media and on internet overall, about our application.

-Diffusion campaigns through institutions and organizations related to forest protection programs.

6. REVENUE STREAM

-Itʼs a non-profit application.

7. COST STRUCTURE

-The app would be developed alongside the NASA. Also, for content storage, alliances with services like Google Drive and ICloud can be established.

8. KEY METRICS

-The amount of fire that are reported in the application.

-The impact of the timespan of the response of emergency institutions.

9. UNFAIR ADVANTAGE

-Take advantage of the influence of the multimedia content that is spread throughout social networks and the internet, to collaborate in society as a whole in these types of events.

PREZI LINK: https://prezi.com/view/WdAVqGJuT1FLfBdNYEez/

GITHUB LINK: https://github.com/puco0404/NASA-WOFIEX

MORE INFORMATION: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Yk8WwE95-uexa4NB...