Wildfire Solutions with AI-IoT-blockchains

Our journey into wildfires and freshwater saving started in 2023. I (Desiree) was asked to be a judge at the yearly Brussels AIOTI hackathon. Hackathons are sometimes real mathy geeky things for software developers, and in this case, it was too. Blockchain and crypto geeks.

The topic was blockchains. The technology behind crypto. Blockchains are accountancy ledgers of datamining. They also call it DeFi. Decentralized Finance. And it is used for many economic change mechanisms. I first talked about it with my Value Instrument friends from Berlin in 2016. Anna Blume (Imapct Journey) is one of the math-software giants and my friend. I talked to Bernard Lietaer and Bancor Protocol people about using it to scale regenerative farming by carbon credits. The technology was not ready yet. Too energy-slorping and bad in the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA).

The first generation behind Bitcoin was hugely energy-inefficient datamining, but in October 2022, the second generation (Ethereum) became 99.9% more energy efficient during The Merge. The Merge most probably used a method like GIELIS Superformula (2003) to turn GBs into kBs. Biomimics. Generalized Intrinsic-Extrinsic Lengths in Submanifolds. Immersive fractals.

In Greece, we had been doing some systemic design work with European AIOTI people around the topic of healthy sea. I have been asked to be an EU judge of subsidies for Blue Economy (coastal areas) in 2020.

Top-down data from satellites. And bottom-up stakeholder involvement by citizen sciences. We had introduced some data-wristbands to diving schools and talked to the people of The Blue Dataverse to integrate that data into their system of marine data sovereignty. Data from satellites need on-the-ground-checking.

2023

Since I was still in Greece with my Greek systemic design friends, I asked AIOTI if I could bring a project to the hackathon instead of being a judge. Wildfires - full stakeholder involvement. Judging others is not always my thing, I want to design my own sustainable models.

My friends Maria Paraskevapoulou (math teacher in Crete) and Dimitrios Karras (AI-professor spectral imaging in Athens) joined the team.

And we won the hackathon! It was a joint win with another team who designed Smart-Healthy Brussels without corruption. Everything is a systemic design!

Our wildfire design resulted in one year of creating the local stakeholder system with existing apps, just adding crypto and rewards for different stakeholders. 2EARN concepts of before-during-after wildfire.

Before:

• regenerative farmers could be rewarded for holding more water and carbon in the soil (carbon credits, blue bonds)

• hotels could be rewarded for informing foreign visitors during checkin of Greek rules during wildfire season and giving attention to the emergency numbers how to report fire, etc.

• a beautiful Belgian AR app by Tropos AR was found that made water hunting possible. It was developed together with a water NGO and could enhance awareness in children and parents during mountain walks, geocaching, and waterfall/spring visits.

Our team had a few discussions about the "jumps" from fire to water, but psychologically it's not good to reward people for finding fires. It would create pyromania. So the Alert 2Earn changed to the Tropos AR app for water hunting during geocaching joy of mountain exploring.

During:

Our Superformula work made us aware of what frequencies can do as solutions. So when one of our team members said: "look at the helium hotspots, Desiree, soooooo polluting" I said: "helium is inflammable, isn't it?" and it gave us the thought that helium frequencies might be a solution for no water extraction and PFAS use. Helium automatically goes up again after use, so will not be polluting our breath layers.

After:

After wildfire, the landscaping work starts again. Ecosystem restoration to prevent landslides, etc. Rhizome plants might be handy there and if you want enough local resources, you might consider bamboo or elephant grasses like miscanthus. You can also choose edibles of course to solve SDG2. No hunger.

• apps can provide local volunteers with discounts or crypto when they help - like they did in Corfu - to be guardians for soil reigniting. it needs for a week or so in Greek soils. In Dutch soils like peat - the big fires of 2026 in Brabant - you would have to do it with drone sensoring.

The water-hunt app by Tropos AR used in Belgian harbors and Dutch water solutions. Augmented Reality gives many modern and "cool" solutions for awareness and Pokemon-Go-Style edutainment.

2026

After 2024, the project was parked for a while until the Genicap team came to us with a plan for Smart-Healthy City math. A logistics fast response system. Their plan was to make an AI Software as a Service (SaaS platform) and sell it to logistics companies.

We did some research and thought AI for logistics had been scaled already in teh big companies. It's just the SMEs now that catch up. So, we suggested another topic for the plan. Wildfires. We entered the ESA call for funding and the rest is history. We are supported by many other teams, Wageningen Institute and are now having talks with private land management companies. governments and insurance companies.

Our consortium team consists of:

Genicap - Tilburg - the biomimic Superformula math

Indicia - Tilburg - software and complex systems. They did work for the fire brigades before

Fossa - Spain - picosatellites - swarm IoT - space-based solutions and infrastructures. They recently won the IoT Ecosystem Contract for the Spanish Atlantic Constellation

Our team is very experienced in AI and IoT designs. Fossa is in the lead for the hardware, Indicia is in the lead for the software. Genicap, including our Abundance-team are connecting it to the healthy landscapes, the math innovations, the citizen sciences, economic modeling, and more.

Data is all. The interconnections are geometry-math-models.

And we are very happy that our 2023-AIOTI project received a Dutch-Spanish a follow-up.

Let's find the fire in our bellies to stop the environmental fires and prevent water extraction. Holding more water in teh soil is our permaculture mantra. Ecology.

Not by looking for the cause and punishing one perpetrator. Often, it is a combination of events. Big batteries in the forests for windmills whereas thermodynamics in ports or pyrolysis of olive pomace in industrial estates could ensure energy abundance with a waste stream.

Solar panels are sometimes the perpetrator if the designs allow oxygen in between solar and roof. Sometimes, it's glass in the woods or machine sparks. Or in the case of Netherlands, military training. We cannot say in times of war: "do not train your military".

We can say: design the environment for minimum chance of fire (no eucalyptus!) and solve the peat reigniting problem with drone schedules and satellite data.

Humans ARE nature. Often these ideas come to me in the night and then the next morning I have ammunition again for our team to design better, to think straight, to prove sciences, to prevent trouble and to solve things when it goes wrong in connections.

Homo sapiens have a linear brain, I can't help it. But some of us - the women in tech - think different. We think in curls and jumps. We bounce around until we find the solutions that are sustainable for the longer term.

Without shame, without blame, with just a little reward for good behaviour.

As if you raise kids. Punishing often doesn't help longterm, people only get grudges. Motivation and rewarding does help. And blockchains are the acountancy ledgers that have become mature technology and energy-efficient. We will keep you informed about the new IGNIS-LINK project with Spain. Contact us: desiree-at-driesenaar-dot-nl if you want to be connected to our consortium in a professional capacity.

Warm regards,

Desiree.