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If i'm not mistaken, those are called smoke detectors and they've been around forever.

Yeah but these are electric noses

i’m pretty sure smoke detectors operate solely by detecting particulate in the air. hence why steam from a shower can set them off. this seems to detect smoke specifically so it wouldn’t be tripped by fog or dust

Smoke Detector 2: Electric Boogerloo

Yep. This detects the gasses emitted by combustion rather than just the presence of smoke particles.

Really? Cause my detectors do Co and smoke, so I would have thought it was more sophisticated than just particulate matter.

Also keeps lumberjacks from taking smoke breaks.

It's CO, not Co. Co is Cobalt

Some kind of… electronic nose than can find or detect smoke in case of emergencies.

Oh dang, I think I may have a Cobalt leak in my house.

How many million of these would you need to setup? Why can’t we just have more Angelina Jolie’s sitting in a tower. Case closed.

It had me wondering if thermal satellite imagery was a real thing? Or is that just drones in spy movies?

No it smells smoke no detecting is involved

Keep your government electric noses off of my trees!

Oh a smoke smeller, yeah that's completely different

“Electronic Nose” like we’re rolling chicken bones here.

A smoke detector with telemetry.

Sorry, we only have that kind of money for war

I see what you pulled out of your nose there.

Reinventing the wheel here

It’s a smoke detecting nose on Dolph Lundgren’s baahhhhddyyyyy!

Sounds interesting. Although, this is the same idea as Smokey The Bear which is part of the reason we have mega-fires now. If we put out all the smaller natural fires, you don’t have control of the underbrush, causing higher density of flora, allowing fires to spread more easily.

There are satellites that use IR sensing to locate potential wildfires. NASA has their MODIS and VIIRS satellites, however because they must orbit, detection may be delayed by a few hours. The resolution is also limited to about 0.5 km.

Settle down Jed Clampett.

All jokes aside, these sensors would be far quicker and more accurate at detecting fires that a human in a fire lookout. Especially if that person had to climb all the way down for a toilet break at the wrong time.

Man I wish fire watcher was still a thing you could do. I would love that job, don’t even have to pay me that much, just enough to live a regular simple live in the off season.

I am the only one in California that gets the feeling that the authorities in California aren’t actually that interested in preventing forest fires. I mean we’re in like the top five biggest economies. Probably the largest tech economy. We have some of the oldest forest and the largest trees on earth yet we can’t seem to allocate enough assets and tech to stop these fires. Many of which are started by the electrical companies that are basically controlled by the government.

This feels like a waste. Even if you put them in national parks and things, how many fires are started outside these places if not by humans then naturally?

Shhh, you just setup a seat with a hole in it at the top.

Gravity will take care of the rest

I have electronic noses in my house.

This killed me

I never meant you any harm.

I’m legit impressed with this idea though. we’re so focused on creating new technologies we don’t even find uses for what we already got!

It’s a nose. It can also detect when someone in a 3 mile radius rips ass

Just another company ignoring their own footprint.