Advancement of an Integrated Technological Platform for Wildfire Management through Edge Computing

The wildfire phenomenon is becoming an increasing threat in the climate crisis era, as estimates from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service show that global wildfire and vegetation fires in 2022 had generated around 1,455 megatonnes of carbon emissions, while European countries such as France and Spain had emissions at their highest level since at least 2003. New conceptual, technological and computational innovations are therefore crucial for more efficient wildfire prevention and suppression, in order to mitigate the problem of extreme wildfire and its impact on climate change. An environmentally sustainable and climate resilient forest management platform to prevent and combat forest fire, which integrates a technological solution based on the incorporation of fire detection data from IoT devices and fire alarms, can provide an outlook on the potential and future of edge computing. Edge computing is therefore a crucial tool in the advancement of wildfire prevention technology, facilitating quicker response time, higher reliability of data, and more efficient data interpretation. This paper provides an overview of the use of modern technologies in wildfire prevention and subsequent data interpretation through edge computing, and proposes possible solutions for its efficient future implementation in wildfire prevention.