Dryad Networks launches Silvanet IoT solution for ultra-early wildfire detection

Environmental startup Dryad Networks has launched Silvanet, its large-scale IoT network for the ultra-early detection of wildfires.

Wildfires are devastating, not just for the lives and habitats they destroy, but also for the long-term damage they cause through massive CO2 emissions while simultaneously destroying the vegetation that lowers carbon.

The US alone is suffering its worst wildfire season in a decade and the 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season was the second...

20 July 2021 | IoT

Dryad Networks is using the ‘Internet of Trees’ to fight wildfires

Dryad Networks is deploying IoT technology to help prevent the devastation caused by wildfires.

This year alone, we’ve had the ongoing wildfire in California that has now set the unwanted record of most acres burned in a single year, the wildfires in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and another of Australia’s bushfires⁠—to name just a few.

Each case leaves a trail of destruction in its wake with environmental, social, and economic impacts. A report in July estimated...

6 October 2020 | IoT