This video-detection system complements a collaborative system that is already well established. Indeed, the SDIS 72 works hand in hand with theONF (Office National des Forêts), theCNPF (Centre National de la Propriété Forestière) and Fransylvia (the forest owners' union).

However, the SDIS 72 remains the major actor in the fight against fires and the protection of wooded areas in the department. Reporter Manuel Halbout interviewed four members of the SDIS in his dossier on fire prevention in the Sarthe:

• • Christophe Burbaud, the SDIS 72 controller general
  • David Chollet, captain and group leader of the SDIS 72 specialised intervention department
  • Benoît Guérin, commander and forest fire departmental advisor of the SDIS 72
  • Cécile Guisset, geomatician at SDIS 72

The photos taken by the detection cameras are analysed by artificial intelligence. Indeed, the ADELIE system's algorithms can detect the presence of smoke, which indicates the presence of a fire in the forest. When smoke is detected, an automatic alert is triggered for the ADELIE operator, generally located at the Alert Processing Centre (APC).

The operators can confirm the alert thanks to the cameras, locate the outbreak of fire by triangulation thanks to the ADELIE interface, and make the location and images of the outbreak of fire available to the Departmental Fire and Rescue Operations Centre (CODIS).

The intervention team then informed can deploy to control the fire, having, even before arriving on site, images of the smoke plume or the fire. In the same way, the CODIS is no longer blind and can take advantage of the images in real time, as well as a posteriori (investigations and feedback).

The ADELIE system product sheet: https: //www.paratronic.com/produit/surveillance-feux-de-foret-adelie