The project seeks to develop a forest fire prevention and detection system that optimises and reduces the response time to imminent or risk scenarios to be implemented in the Ciervo de los Pantanos National Park.

The Ciervo de los Pantanos National Park is located in the Campana district, 7km from the city and 69 km from the city of Buenos Aires. It has an area of 5,561 hectares and was created in 2018 (Law No. 27,456) on the basis of the Otamendi Natural Reserve. It is a site with Ramsar and AICA recognition, and is also part of the national system of protected areas (Law No. 22351).

Smart sensor network

The detection and prevention methodology will be developed from the deployment of a network of intelligent sensors intended to collect information from the environment in real time and integrate data from our own open weather stations, in order to predict preventive or emergency warning patterns. detection of active fire and its behaviour.

The network is made up of ultrasonic meteorological sensors, a fire identification camera, a CO2 concentration sensor and a soil humidity and temperature sensor. This set of devices allows measuring climatological elements such as atmospheric temperature, atmospheric humidity, wind speed and direction, air pressure and amount of rainfall; the amount of CO2 concentrated in the air and the humidity and temperature of the soil.