Functional Architecture


The inputs to the system are categorized broadly into Material/Mechanical input, energy into the system, and information input. The material input for our system is the wildfire environment the drone is traversing which is perceived by the on-board sensor suite. The electrical energy from the battery is utilized by the computation, communication, and actuation modules mounted on the drone’s airframe. The only information input to the system is the GPS location of the estimated wildfire location. The system transmits mainly three data outputs, fire heat map, wildfire primary hotspot location, and the drone’s telemetry data. Summing up, the system takes the GPS coordinates of the rough estimate of wildfire location and transmits the fire heatmap, primary hotspot location, and telemetry data.