Firehawk

Willem Oosthuizen

About this app

FireHub gives forestry operators and incident teams a live view of every
fire detected by the FireHawk network of AI-equipped tower cameras across
South Africa.

KEY FEATURES

• Fires tab — reverse-chronological list of every fire detection across
the cameras you have access to, with age, tower, preset, and time.
Toggle to a map view to see fires plotted geographically, colour-coded
by age (red < 1 h, amber 1–12 h, yellow > 12 h).

• Push notifications — alerts arrive within seconds of detection, with
the camera name and bearing so you can respond immediately.

• Fire detail — full-screen pinch-to-zoom on the detection frame, day-
reference overlay slider to locate features against daylight terrain,
toggle between detection-time and live conditions from the closest
weather station, "Navigate to fire" in Apple Maps / Waze / Google Maps,
and a dedicated Pilot view with bearing strip and ETA for responding
aircraft.

• Cameras tab — browse the network, sight-line cross-reference for multi-
camera triangulation, FOV wedge over each preset, and mini-map with
nearby cameras as tappable pins.

• Weather tab — live Fire Danger Index (FDI) for every assigned weather
station, with Red / Orange / Yellow / Green / Blue filters and a map
view with per-station wind-direction arrows.

• iPad-optimized layouts on all tabs with split-view detail panes.

ACCESS

FireHub is an operator tool — access is granted to camera operators,
pilots, and incident commanders by the project administrator. Contact
your operations team to request access.

What’s new

• Weather stations now show a 7-day fire danger outlook: one coloured square per day with its FDI number. Days needing extra caution are marked with a dot.
• Tap a station for the full forecast: temperature, humidity, wind, rain and fire danger for each of the next seven days, and when it was made.
• Offline stations show it too — the forecast comes from the station's location, not its sensor, so it stays useful when the station stops reporting.