This Company Will Use Artificial Intelligence To Fight Wildfires

As wildfires become tougher to control, one company is looking to fight the flames with tech. Compta Emerging Business is the winner of this year's Watson Build Competition sponsored by IBM. The Portugal-based company developed a solution that uses its patented spectrometric analysis technology to detect fires automatically within 5 minutes of ignition and within a range of up to 15 kilometers. "We are bringing artificial intelligence to the game so wildfires can be detected at the earliest stage," said Vasco Correia, Director of International Business at Compta. "We can detect very early and we can recommend firefighting measures."