PANO AI video in the COTAK server?
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Does anyone know if this new video / technology will be available as a video feed into the TAK server?
PANO AI, what is it?
High-resolution cameras scanning Colorado forests once every minute, 24-7 — linked to a smoke-detecting artificial intelligence algorithm residing in a computer cloud. These cameras are being installed on Colorado high points from Lookout Mountain near Golden to Telluride’s Ajax Peak. Colorado has had five years of the largest fires in its history so this is a new tool to help with early detection, allowing us to try to get to fires before they become big fires.
One of the camera units will be placed in the Marshall area, another will be located near Fort Collins and one near Golden, but fire officials said the greatest benefit will likely be in locating fires too remote to be initially detected by people.
Pano AI’s high-resolution cameras rotate 360 degrees every minute and can see 20 miles out. They tend to be located about 10 miles apart so that a fire location can be triangulated. At night the cameras switch to near infrared to seek out heat signatures in the forest.
The goal is detecting the first wisps of smoke, fixing a location and determining what resources are needed. Once the cameras pick up an image, the algorithm assesses whether it is smoke. If it cries “smoke,” it is double-checked by a human in the company’s “intelligence center” and an alert is sent to the relevant fire agencies and utilities.
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We have integrated a few of the live video feeds from FTS cameras in Larimer County and near our office in Rifle into the COTAK live feeds data package (available on the z_Initial Setup channel) but that is as far as we've gotten. I think it makes sense to look at expanding this integration to other providers and to include live data on the direction the camera is facing. Mike is WMFR a purchaser of Pano? It might help us make that integration if one of their paying customers is asking for it.
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Hello Mr. Schmidt, We are not a customer of Pano, I received this information from Jeffcom 911 who will be dispatching fire responses based on their alert notifications. Since fire departments will likely be responding to these alerts, I would think it could be valuable if there was a data feed available, at least when they trigger a response.
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Thanks for that information, we are working actively now with integrating Jeffcom 911 into COTAK, so I'll bring up this topic and see what we can do
