Fire and Smoke Detection modules

Fire and Smoke Detection modules


Fire and smoke are additional analytical modules and are available as a separate paid add-on




Fire detection add-on is designed to detect relatively large fires.
It is not suited to detect someone lighting up a cigarette or other small sources of fire like matches or candles.
The fires should be at least 4%-5% square of the image size to be detected, here is an example of a smaller-sized fire that can be already detected:



Smoke detection works for opaque smoke.
Smoke from cigarettes or vaping devices is typically not opaque enough to be detected.


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