Earlier threat awareness
Earlier awareness of threat development and wind-shift detection, built from official feeds and field sensing with provenance attached.
Flagship architecture
Firebreaks stop the flame front. AEROS controls what happens behind it.
Ember Shield is a human-commanded, autonomy-enabled wildfire operating architecture that connects incident command, crews, sensing, communications, aerial assets and ground systems into one governed operational picture.
The window
The hardest hours are the ones crews cannot work.
Those are national totals. The operational pattern underneath them repeats incident by incident: crews withdraw when conditions exceed survivable limits, aircraft ground in extreme wind, and incident command loses visibility when smoke, terrain and degraded communications fracture the operating picture.
The fire does not pause during that window. Ember Shield is built to hold governed awareness and coordination through it — not to replace crews, and not to make decisions that belong to incident command.
Operational outcomes
What Ember Shield is for.
Crew location and withdrawal support
Crew location, route awareness and withdrawal support presented to incident command, under incident-command authority.
Visibility through degradation
Continuous operational visibility through smoke, terrain, distance and communications degradation.
Governed asset coordination
Governed coordination of aerial and ground assets inside limits humans set.
Support tasks that free crews
Suppression support, medical delivery, logistics, search and rescue, and controlled evacuation support.
Protection of exposed places
Support for the protection of remote communities, critical infrastructure and the wildland-urban interface.
How the system is organized
Five layers, named by function.
Product names are secondary to what the operation actually needs. Development status is labelled on every component.
Observe
In developmentOverwatch, official government data feeds, weather and wind information, remote sensing and field sensors.
Connect
In developmentTerra-Node, approved communications partners and multi-transport continuity.
Decide
DemonstratedA.V.A., Nexus and incident-command interfaces operating within human-set authority.
Act
Partner-providedAEGIS, Mule or partner-provided UAS and UGV systems.
Protect
RoadmapCATS crew awareness, medical and logistics support, and evacuation support. RHINO is a later heavy engineering and evacuation pathway.
How we talk about this
Four commitments about wildfire claims.
We do not replace firefighters
Ember Shield is a force multiplier for incident command. Authority, judgment and tactical decisions stay with the people who hold them today.
We do not tell anyone they are safe
The system can describe risk awareness and support. It does not issue safety guarantees. Evacuation and public-safety decisions come from the responsible authorities, and you should follow them.
We disclose data health
If a feed is stale, unavailable or degraded, the system says so. Old information is never presented as current.
We preserve official wording
Where official agency information is used, source provenance and unaltered official wording are preserved rather than paraphrased into something that sounds more certain.
2027 pilot pathwayPlanned pilot
A limited, controlled pilot conversation.
Any 2027 pilot is limited and controlled, and remains subject to funding, engineering validation, safety testing, operator requirements, airspace permissions, regulatory approvals and partner availability. Nothing on this page implies a committed deployment. No pilot commitment exists unless a signed agreement is in place.
Who we are looking to speak with
- Wildfire agencies
- Municipalities
- First Nations and Indigenous organizations
- Critical-infrastructure operators
- Technology partners
- Research and test organizations
What a pilot would set out to validate
- Coordination across crews, assets and incident command
- Continuity when communications degrade
- Crew awareness and withdrawal support
- Data governance and source provenance
- Communications resilience across transports
- Human-commanded operation end to end
Start a pilot conversation
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