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WHY EARLY MATTERS
Every wildfire starts small. The first minutes decide the rest.
Caught in its first minutes, a wildfire can be stopped at its source. Camera and satellite systems often detect the fire hours after it starts, once it is already spreading. When left for this long, it can grow beyond control. Early detection is what makes autonomous suppression possible. A drone can put out a fire while it’s small, but not once it has spread.
HOW DRYAD STOPS WILDFIRES
Detect. Verify, Suppress.
One connected system, from the forest floor to the sky.
1
DETECT:
SILVANET SUITE SENSORS
Solar-powered sensors smell a fire while it is still smoldering.
LIVE
2
VERIFY:
SILVAGUARD OBSERVATION DRONE
A drone launches automatically to confirm and pinpoint the fire.
COMING 2027
3
SUPPRESS:
SILVAGUARD SUPPRESSION DRONE
A second drone delivers suppressant while the fire is still small.
COMING 2027
AROUND
3 MINUTES
Silvanet detects the fire.
WITHIN
10 MINUTES OF IGNITION
Silvaguard is designed to deliver suppressant.
SEE IT IN ACTION
From first alert to autonomous response.
Note: Suppression drone provided by Harald Müller Metall-Sonderfertigung GmbH funded by BMBF (Projekt PEELIKAN).
SILVANET
An early warning from deep in the forest.
Silvanet works like an electronic nose for the forest. Its AI-enabled sensors detect the gas signature of a fire while it is still smoldering, under the canopy where cameras and satellites cannot see. It adds an ultra-early warning layer alongside existing camera and satellite systems.
Detects in minutes
Often before open flames appear.
Solar-powered
No batteries. Built to last 10 to 15 years.
Works off-grid
A mesh network carries alerts beyond mobile coverage.
Managed in one place
The cloud platform supports deployment planning, network management and alerts.
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SILVAGUARD
From alert to autonomous action.
Silvaguard turns Silvanet’s early warning into an airborne response. When a sensor raises the alarm, an observation drone launches to find and assess the fire, and a suppression drone delivers liquid suppressant directly onto it. Solar-powered hangars keep both drones protected, charged and ready, with no pilot needed.
(Pilots 2027, commercial launch 2028.)
Launches automatically
Responds to a Silvanet alert with no human in the loop.
Verifies in real time
Infrared and optical cameras confirm and pinpoint the fire.
Targets small fires
Delivers up to 100 litres of suppressant while the fire is still small.
Solar-powered hangars
Keep the drones protected, charged and ready in the forest.
2025–2026
Prototypes proven in the field.
2027
Pilot sites.
2028
Commercial launch.
WHO IT IS FOR
Protect what a wildfire puts at risk.
From commercial forests to homes at the forest edge, earlier detection gives people more time to act.
COMMUNITIES
Give local authorities and response teams more time to act on fires near homes and protect the people who live there.
INSURERS
Help policyholders detect fires earlier and limit potential losses through faster intervention.
FORESTRY
Detect fires in their earliest stages to help protect timber, land and years of investment.
UTILITIES AND RAIL
Get early warning of fires along power lines and railway corridors, helping protect critical infrastructure and limit disruption.
NATIONAL PARKS
Give rangers earlier warning in remote areas, helping protect habitats, wildlife and visitors.
OUR STORY & MISSION
Protecting the natural world.
Silvaguard turns Silvanet’s early warning into an airborne response. When a sensor raises the alarm, an observation drone launches to find and assess the fire, and a suppression drone delivers liquid suppressant directly onto it. Solar-powered hangars keep both drones protected, charged and ready, with no pilot needed.
OUR STORY
After several successful startups and exits in IT, electronics and telecoms, Dryad's founders saw wildfires increasingly threatening the world's largest carbon sink, and set out to protect it.
OUR MISSION
In Greek mythology, dryads are tree spirits that protect the forests they live in. Our mission is to tackle wildfires with ultra-early detection, and to protect and restore the natural resources we all depend on.
OUR TEAM
Led by serial entrepreneur Carsten Brinkschulte, Dryad brings together experience in telecoms, IoT, AI and forest science. The team builds its sensors, mesh network, cloud platform and drone autonomy in-house, in Berlin and Eberswalde.
PROVEN IN THE FIELD
Dryad is already working in the field.
126 WILDFIRES DETECTED
By live Silvanet networks, used by fire agencies including CAL FIRE.
AN EARLY ALERT IN LEBANON
A Silvanet alert helped responders reach an unauthorised agricultural fire and extinguish it before it spread into the surrounding forest.
$800k XPRIZE WILDFIRE AWARD
Second-place awardee in XPRIZE Wildfire’s Autonomous Wildfire Response track*.
* No team met every competition requirement, and no grand prize was awarded.
