Rugged Tablets to Service Wildfire Containment Mission with Durability

In the face and aftermath of natural vicissitudes

Wildland assessment and protection has entered the consciousness of the public sector ever since the notoriously reported wildfire across the globe in 2020. Countries in southern hemisphere like Australia, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico and those located in northern hemisphere such as United States, Canada, and the Siberia region have all suffered from forest scorching and the resulting devastation of habitat ecosystem and mankind properties. In reciprocation for natural vicissitude, wildfire is, in essence, an organic cleaning mechanism of the nature; however, excessive occurrence triggered by abnormal climate change or even due to human negligence can be devastating.

Landscape monitoring and model establishment is not only crucial in the sense of a preemptive approach but also decisive towards wildfire control. Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) with a high-resolution and GPS-served camera can capture and transfer real-time images with target coordinates to an agilely mobile rugged tablet on the ground for base and burn surfaces analysis, 2D maps and 3D landscape models construction, and also fire control lines establishment. Deploying fire control lines is the vital first step for wildfire containment before proceeding to burnout/backburn, flanking, hot spotting, knock down, cold trailing, and aerial attack actions. To safely and efficiently control a wildfire, the service duration of UAS and rugged tablet must be 24/7 for continuously emergent operations. Withstanding challenging environmental factors such as ambient temperature, air current and pressure is also of no less importance.

Powered by advanced processors on Windows or Android platform, RuggON rugged tablets are empowered with complete wireless technologies to support reliably seamless real-time communication and deployment between UAS and command center, no matter in vehicle or on aircraft. Hot-swappable battery supported, uninterrupted operations are further guaranteed throughout the entire containment mission with the tablets extraordinarily tested IP65 and MIL-STD-810G rugged standards.