The year 2019 is not over yet and already collects the largest number of fire cases since 2010, according to INPE.

Periods of drought, deforestation, temperature rise, use of fire for agropastoral management are the main causes of forest fires in Brazil and worldwide.

The consequences of burning are incalculable, one of the largest of which is the emission of carbon dioxide in large quantities in the atmosphere. In addition the fire impoverishes the soil and interferes with its physical composition, especially its porosity and penetrability. Fire also decimates animal and plant life and can lead to irreparable losses in the ecosystem of the affected region.

In today's models, fires often take on major proportions before specialized forces can actually intervene. The speed and access of the information is fundamental so that the fire can be put out even in the first sparks or possibly prevented as soon as climatic conditions that favor the appearance of fire outbreaks are identified.

With that in mind, Pollux exposes Piro.

Piro is a complete suite based mostly on an API (Application Programming Interface), WebApp and Mobile App that enables civil society to contribute to the process of fire mitigation, prevention and protection.

With an intuitive and practical layout the population will work side by side with monitoring entities and competent authorities, improving the time of identification and action in the fight against flames.

Piro will allow the population to:

• Inform where a fire is occurring;
• Search for areas where fires are occurring;
• Define geographic areas of interest to receive fire notification;
• Create an account on the website or app to receive periodic fire information, receive fire alerts in the regions it has listed as areas of interest, as well as view reports generated from the collected occurrences;

In addition, the platform:

• Will through prior authorization have access to the user's location and use it to give real-time feedback on possible or confirmed fires;
• Assist authorities and fire brigade by issuing alerts for fire as well as fire threats;
• will monitor areas of risk with rising temperatures to prevent fires and issue warnings to the population and authorities;

To provide a complete experience, Piro will consume some APis and thus enable actions such as:

• Receive, via apps and SMS, fire occurrences;
• Store and evaluate occurrences;
• Cross occurrence information with satellite data;
• Generate public reports.
• Notify users based on location or areas of interest;
• Show map fires of the last 24h;
• Enable the search for fires by region or period.

All of this can be done by generating costs solely on demand using server services, SMS sending and receiving, and making cost-based phone calls provided by companies like Google and Twilio.

Furthermore, in the occurrence verification, Machine Learning techniques and computer vision will be applied to identify the presence of fire in the photos registered by users, as well as the extraction and analysis of image metadata.

Preserving our forests is essential for the continuity of human and animal life.

Burnings degrades the quality of air, soil and fauna and flora. An area hit by fire takes a long time to regenerate naturally. This is why it is necessary to create a fire and temperature rise monitoring tool to protect nature and living things.

In the future, with the use of Piro, it will become easier and easier to avoid large fires, enabling the combat in the first stages.

The participation of the population in the whole process of fire and burning mitigation will represent a small click for man, but a big step against fire.

Resources

During Piro development, those technologies or resources were used:

• Proto.io, for prototyping;
• Twilio, for messaging and phone calls;
• Icons made by Freepik and Vectors Market;
• Whimsical, for flowcharts and mind maps;
• Trello, for task management;
• Adobe Premiere Pro, for pitches montage and edition;
• Sing2Guitar | Acoustic Backing Tracks' ROAR (Acoustic Guitar Karaoke) Katy Perry, for the pitch;
• HTML5;
• CSS3;
• JS;
• PHP;
• Laravel.