Observed arrival · 2026-11-06
Kaan Martin Oytac’s town-scale wildfire alarm
A 17-year-old Kelowna builder’s personal site documents Wildfire Alarm, an open-source smoke-sensor system designed for towns to deploy themselves.
- For
- Small towns seeking locally deployable wildfire detection
- Worth noticing
- The Habitat Safety Device compares particulate matter, pressure, and humidity against a learned baseline.
Field notes
The site describes the Habitat Safety Device (HSD) as learning a baseline, then scoring particulate-matter levels, pressure, humidity, and other readings against it. Oytac says he initially handled outreach and hardware prototyping, then wrote the specification, chose thresholds, ran host-side tests, and merged firmware changes after his co-founder left in September 2026. The page links to project files and burn-test material; it also notes a peer-tutoring club and a paper on how AI may shift expectations of other people.
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