Fire Tracker

Inspiration

Due to Covid, forest fires have steered clear a bit, but they are a common problem, especially in California. In the entire state of California, 5.4 million acres of land are burnt (approximately 5%). From 2014-19, 5.1 billion dollars have been lost due to forest fires.

What it does

The fire tracker is quite simple. Due to their low cost and cheap design, they can be sold in bulk and are quite expendable. You set them up in a perimeter around areas that are at high risk for forest fires. They will keep watch 24/7 and alert the authorities and website when a potential fire is there.

How I built it

We used Arduino to build the actual prototype and code the prototype. Coolterm is used to format the output from the Arduino device and connects wirelessly to the prototype. Atom then converts the txt file outputted by Coolterm and embeds it into a seamless html + css webpage.

Challenges I ran into

The main challenge was getting the website to work properly and for it to be wireless. We figured it out at the end though.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Just finishing the project is a big accomplishment and that itself is what I'm proud of.

What I learned

I learend a lot of html and css as I did not really know that much coming into this. I made a website last year for a hackathon and it was very basic and I forgot how it really worked for the most part.