Student projectWildfireStopper
AI-Powered Wildfire Combat & Disaster Relief Drone
Meet The Wildfire Stopper! This advanced AI drone stops wildfires and helps find people who need help — combining cutting-edge technology with environmental protection.
Created to solve the real-life problem of Wildfires & Disaster Relief. Our drone helps extinguish fires faster and safer than ever before.
Wildfire Stopper
Real-Life Problem
Understanding the global wildfire crisis
What Is the Problem?
Wildfires pose a critical global threat by destroying homes, habitats, and lives at an accelerating rate. Beyond the immediate devastation, their toxic smoke and massive carbon emissions harm public health worldwide and accelerate climate change.
Where Does It Happen?
Wildfires mainly occur in forests across Sub-Saharan Africa, Western North America, and Australia, among other regions. These areas face increasing fire risk due to rising temperatures and prolonged droughts caused by climate change.
Who or What Is Affected?
The animals’ habitats are destroyed by deforestation caused by the large number of vegetation and trees burnt away, leaving them uninhabitable for prolonged periods. Fires also release massive amounts of toxic smoke and carbon emissions, further accelerating global warming. This affects the whole world, especially people living near the main locations of wildfires.
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Our Solution
How the Wildfire Stopper tackles the problem
Our Drone
The Wildfire Stopper drone helps put out wildfires by dropping water or dry powder directly onto them. It is also equipped with standard cameras and thermal cameras to locate fires and possible survivors — making it both a combat and rescue tool.
What Does It Do?
Our drone solves most of the problem by reducing casualties and putting out fires more quickly than if done by humans alone. This reduces the overall damage caused by fires and keeps firefighters safe by removing them from the most dangerous areas.
How Does It Work?
Three steps, listed below.
Key Capabilities
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My Drone
The Wildfire Stopper — component breakdown
3D Mapping LIDAR
Maps out the terrain of the forest in three dimensions, giving the drone precise spatial awareness to navigate safely through dense smoke and complex terrain.
Thermal Camera
Detects fire locations by sensing heat signatures invisible to normal cameras. Also spots survivors in dense smoke or darkness, enabling disaster rescue missions.
Anemometer Gas Detector
Detects dangerous toxic gases released by fires and measures wind speed and direction, helping predict how the fire will spread and warning ground teams of hazards.
What Does It All Do Together?
The 3D Mapping LIDAR maps out the terrain of the forest, the Thermal Camera is helpful for detecting the fire’s location and any survivors, and the Anemometer Gas Detector detects the dangerous gases being released by the fires and measures wind conditions for smarter, safer firefighting.
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How It Helps
The real-world impact of the Wildfire Stopper
How Does the Drone Help?
Our Wildfire Stopper Drone flies high over forests to spot smoke and fires early. By detecting fires before they spread, it protects trees, keeps wild animals safe, and helps firefighters stay out of danger! The drone can cover large areas quickly, getting water or powder to fires that humans cannot safely reach.
Why Is Our Drone Useful?
Our drone is useful because it reacts faster than human spotters and can safely fly in bad weather or thick smoke where helicopters cannot go! It operates autonomously, meaning it can work non-stop without putting any human lives at risk.
Protects Forests
Early detection prevents fires from spreading across wide areas of precious woodland.
Saves Wildlife
Faster firefighting protects animal habitats before they are permanently destroyed.
Keeps Firefighters Safe
Reduces the need for humans to enter the most dangerous fire zones.
Fights Climate Change
Less burning means fewer carbon emissions, slowing the acceleration of global warming.
“By combining AI technology with environmental care, the Wildfire Stopper helps protect our planet — one fire at a time.”
The Wildfire StopperSebastienAI Drone Soccer ChallengeTwo daysAugust 2026, Johor Bahru
Meet the maker
Sebastien made this.Two days
One day designing a drone and writing the site you just read, one flying for real at the arena.
“By combining AI technology with environmental care, the Wildfire Stopper helps protect our planet — one fire at a time.”
How he made it
- 3D Mapping LIDAR
- Thermal Camera
- Anemometer Gas Detector
Picked a problem worth solving
wildfires that burn 400 million hectares a year and displace over 200,000 people
Specified the machine, part by part
Every part justified by the job it does.
Had AI draw it, then built the site
Pictured with Gemini, written and built by him.
Day two · REVA arena
Then they flew for real.
Send it on
Send this to someone.
Sebastien researched the global wildfire crisis, designed a drone that fights it, then built and published this website to make the case — right down to the labelled sensor diagram.
Grandparents, aunties, the other parent — it is his to show off.
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Your child could make something like this.