Wildfires increase in severity and quantity every year.
Burned across the EU in 2025. The worst season ever recorded, and nearly double the 2006-2024 average.
Estimated global cost of wildfires every year, and detection spending keeps climbing with it.
Of everything that burned in Portugal in 2025 came from just 44 fires. Reach them early enough and the season changes.
Sources: EFFIS / Joint Research Centre, 2025 EU fire season · ICNF and CTIF, 2025 · global cost, sector estimate.
Why current forest fire prevention fails.
Batteries die
Every cell in the forest is a future field visit - and a future failure exactly when the season is hottest.
Solar fails
Under a dense tree canopy there is no reliable light budget. Panels foul, shade moves, winter happens.
Maintenance never scales
A thousand devices is a logistics problem. A million is an impossibility. OPEX is what kills coverage.
Physics made it possible. We are making it inevitable.
A passive sensor with no stored energy, no panel and no grid connection. It rests for a decade and answers in a millisecond.
Passive by physics
Nothing to charge, nothing to deplete. The energy budget is zero because there is no budget.
Triggered by the anomaly itself
The event that matters is the event that powers the report. We don't look for the fire - we wait for it.
Priced to cover a whole country
Forest prevention should not be a luxury line item. Coverage only matters if it can be deployed everywhere.
Backed by people who know what a bad fire season costs.
Built by a team that ships ambitious physics.
2nd place, SpinUM
University of Minho
Rural Impact Award
Rural Impact Hub · €1,000
UPTEC Incubation Award
UPTEC, University of Porto
So simple, you'll wonder how it wasn't invented 30 years ago.
Lab testing
The physics stops being a paper and starts being a measurement. Harvesting and thermal response are characterised on the bench.
SpinUM 2026
Second place at the University of Minho's startup competition. The first time the idea is judged as a company rather than a project.
CNJE 2026
National young entrepreneurs competition. The pitch meets an audience with no reason to be kind to it, and holds.
EIA Porto 2026
Team assembled, product defined, first working prototypes printed and instrumented.
First pilots
Instrumented cork-oak stands in Portugal, with landowners and municipalities who want the season back.