Overview
- This summer the Parc Natural de la Serra de Collserola, MWCapital and the AMB have activated a field trial of Pantera, an AI camera-and-algorithm system now operating in the park to watch for smoke columns.
- Pantera’s cameras scan up to about 20 kilometres and the developer says the system can flag a smoke column in seconds and issue an alert within roughly three minutes after an automatic second verification.
- The software was built by Brazilian firm Umgrauemeio and trained on more than 20,000 fire detections across diverse Brazilian biomes covering some 39 million hectares, which project partners say must be adapted to Catalonia’s terrain and urban edges.
- Reports differ on the hardware: some local briefings say two cameras were installed while others say four cameras are in two lookout towers, creating a public discrepancy about the trial’s scale.
- After the trial concludes the AMB and Barcelona’s Bombers will evaluate accuracy, integration with local protocols and community alerting before deciding whether to adopt the system more widely, with potential to speed response compared with slower satellite detection and to support the roughly 20 human lookouts now on duty.