Autonomous wildfire detection.
A fleet of drones patrols your high-risk zones, spots smoke and heat the moment they appear, and sends a second drone to confirm the hotspot before it alerts you. One operator. Day and night. You set the zone — Maestro flies it, watches it, and tells you when something starts.
Patrol. Detect. Confirm. Alert.
A continuous loop that runs on its own. The operator sets the high-risk zone once and supervises — the fleet handles the watch.
Patrol
An autonomous patrol covers the zone you define — a wildland edge, a ridge above a town, a power corridor. The fleet hands off drone to drone, so the watch continues through every battery swap. One operator runs the whole patrol from one screen, and the area it can cover grows with the number of drones you fly.
Detect
Maestro watches for the earliest signs of fire: a smoke plume in daylight — visible at long range, often before there's open flame — and a heat signature on thermal, which sees through darkness and low light. Smoke is the early warning; heat is the confirmation.
Confirm
The instant something is flagged, the fleet dispatches a second drone to fly in close and check the spot on thermal — automatically, with no operator in the loop. This is the difference between a system you trust and one you mute: a confirmed hotspot is worth a crew; a dust cloud or heat haze is filtered out before anyone is paged.
Alert
A confirmed hotspot raises an alert on the operator's screen and to a phone — with the location and a thermal image attached. A crew is moving in the minutes that matter, not after the smoke is visible from the valley floor.
The Second Drone Is the Point
A fixed camera on a tower can flag smoke — but it can't move in to check, and it can't see what's behind the ridge. Maestro Fire is a moving watch: when one drone sees something, another flies in to confirm it on thermal before you're alerted. That's only possible because Maestro coordinates the fleet as one team — the drones share what they see directly with each other and re-task themselves. It's the autonomy underneath, pointed at fire.
A System, Not a Drone
You don't assemble this from parts. Maestro Fire arrives ready to watch your zone, in two parts.
Maestro Fire Node
The aircraft, ready to fly:
- A proven airframe
- A thermal camera for heat detection and night cover
- Onboard AI compute so each drone decides and acts for itself
- 5G / LTE so it reaches across wide areas
- Maestro pre-installed and configured
Add nodes to cover more ground. The range of your watch grows with the size of your fleet.
Maestro Fleet
The intelligence that turns aircraft into a watch:
- Autonomous patrols of your zones
- The automatic second-drone confirm
- Fleet coordination and mission planning
- Alerting to your screen and to a phone
- Continual updates and support
A subscription, priced per site — so covering more of your area never costs you for flying more drones.
Built for Early Detection
Maestro Fire is built to catch ignitions early — persistent autonomous patrol over the high-risk zones you define, under your own operating authorizations. The value is in the minutes between a spark and a front, not in flying into an active wildfire. It's an early-warning system that puts a confirmed alert in front of a crew sooner — the decisions, and the response, stay with your people.
For the Teams That Catch It First
Fire & Rescue Services
Persistent eyes on the wildland edge through fire season — so crews roll on a confirmed hotspot, not a delayed phone call.
Wildland-Urban Communities
Towns and estates where one missed ignition means lost homes. An autonomous watch on the high-risk edge, day and night.
Utilities & Land Managers
Power corridors, forestry, and critical infrastructure where ignition risk and liability run highest. Catch a start before it reaches the assets.
Two Parts, Priced Per Site
Maestro Fire is the Fire Node (the aircraft, with thermal, compute and 5G) plus a Maestro Fleet subscription (the intelligence and support). The subscription is priced per site, not per drone — coordinating more drones is the whole point, so we never charge you for doing more of it.
Cost scales with the area you need to watch and the size of your fleet. Contact us for pricing →
Common Questions
Does it fly itself?
Yes — the patrol, the detection, and the second-drone confirm all run autonomously. One operator sets the zone and supervises; the fleet does the flying. A human stays in control and makes the call on any alert.
Does it work at night?
Yes. Smoke is the daytime early warning; the thermal camera sees heat through darkness and low light, so the watch continues around the clock.
How big an area can it cover?
The watch grows with your fleet — more Fire Nodes cover more ground and keep coverage continuous through battery swaps. We size the fleet to the zone you need to protect.
What about airspace and authorizations?
Maestro Fire flies under your own operating authorizations over defined high-risk zones. We work within the rules where you operate — it's an early-detection watch, not a tool for flying into active fire airspace.
See It Catch a Fire.
Book a walkthrough: an autonomous patrol spots smoke, a second drone confirms the hotspot on thermal, and the alert lands — all on its own.
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