Western Cape firefighter drones to use CSIR sensors

Описание: Table Mountain authorities in the Western Cape may soon call on firefighter drones to detect and extinguish small fires in hard-to-reach places before they spread to the City of Cape Town.

In March 2024, the CSIR exclusively licensed its K-Line fire sensor to a local company, Autonosky, which designed their Autono1 drone to drop fire-retardant balls on small-scale blazes.

“Autonosky specialises in extinguishing small-scale fires, but before partnering with us, they did not have the ability to detect, track and estimate the spread of small-scale fires,” says CSIR senior engineer Edwin Magidimisha. “We introduced the Autonosky team to the concept of fire dynamics and we collaborated with the company to jointly test their K-line payload for fire-detection.”

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