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Your home fights back when you can't.
The most advanced wildfire detection ever built for a home.
Embers arrive before flames. Once you evacuate, your home is on its own. EmberX watches with three layers of fire detection, arms itself as evacuation orders escalate, and coats your perimeter in bio-safe retardant the moment fire reaches your property — on its own power, with every alert sent straight to your phone.
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01 / The Threat
This is your neighborhood's fire history.
Every recorded wildfire since 1950 within a hundred miles of Lake Tahoe, on both sides of the state line. Brighter shapes burned recently; darker ones decades ago. Drag the year range to watch the pattern accelerate, and tap a burn area for the fire's name, year, and size — then ask how close the nearest one came to your street.
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02 / How It Works
One central computer. Three ways of seeing fire.
Eight perimeter thermal nodes, an ambient air sensor, and two thermal cameras — each sweeping its own 180° — feed an on-site central computer. The computer tracks your exact evacuation status via GPS and WatchDuty, steps through three readiness levels as danger rises, and deploys bio-safe retardant through four perimeter sprinkler zones — automatically, or on your command. Watch the fire simulation below arm the system step by step — or switch to explore mode, where every piece is tappable.
A normal day in the Sierra
Blue skies. The system sits at Level 1 — Standby. Cameras are asleep, and all three detection layers would have to agree before anything deploys.
Readiness
L1 · Standby
WatchDuty
No orders
To Deploy
3 of 3
Power
Grid
Zones
Ready
Tap any part of the system — on the property map or in the signal flow — and this panel explains what it is, what it watches for, and what it's connected to.
No jargon. Promise.
Alerts arrive as the scenario unfolds
Cameras sleep through normal conditions and power on automatically at Level 2 — a red flag warning or evacuation notice.
Raise the readiness level to wake them
Fig. 01 — Fire-approach simulation (concept). WatchDuty evacuation status arms the system step by step — accelerated here.
A
It watches — three ways
Eight melt-wire thermal nodes ring the property line, an ambient air sensor tracks how fast the air is heating, and two thermal cameras each sweep half the horizon. Three independent layers, so no single glitch can fool it.
B
It arms itself as danger rises
The central computer knows its GPS position and watches WatchDuty and red flag warnings. Normal day: all three layers must agree. Evacuation warning: two. GO NOW order: a single detection deploys — instantly.
C
It deploys — and tells you everything
The pump pushes bio-safe retardant from the on-site reservoir through all four perimeter zones, coating the roofline and defensible space. Every step lands on your phone by SMS — and you can bypass it all and deploy manually, anytime.
03 / The Hardware
Simple parts. No grid required.
Every component is chosen to keep working when everything else fails — power outages, dead cell towers, downed internet, evacuation orders.
Perimeter Thermal Nodes
8 nodesEight temperature nodes dot the property line. Each carries a melt-wire that physically severs in fire-level heat — a broken circuit is an unmistakable, fail-safe alarm that needs no software to be believed.
Ambient Air Sensor
Rate-of-riseMounted on the perimeter and the house, it watches the rate of temperature rise — not just the number. A wall of hot air moving across the property reads very differently from a warm afternoon.
Dual Thermal Cameras
2× 180°Two thermal cameras on opposite corners, each sweeping its own 180° — together they cover every approach to the property. They sleep through normal conditions and power on automatically at Level 2 — a red flag warning or evacuation notice. Thermal only: they see heat, not detail.
Central Computer
Pi + SMS + GPSA Raspberry Pi central computer reads every sensor, runs the 3-of-3 / 2-of-3 / 1-of-3 voting logic, and fires the pump. An SMS text modem reaches you over cellular; on-board GPS plus a WatchDuty feed tell it exactly which evacuation zone your home sits in.
Retardant Reservoir + Pump
4 zonesA dedicated on-site reservoir of bio-safe, yard-friendly retardant feeds a pump that pressurizes four perimeter sprinkler zones — north, east, south, west. No dependence on municipal supply, which is often the first thing to fail.
Independent Power
Grid → SolarGrid power when it's there, solar panels and a battery bank when it isn't. The switchover is automatic: the system drops into low-power mode and keeps watching. It never depends on the grid to defend your home.
04 / Region
Built for Reno, Tahoe & Northern Nevada.
High-wind, dry-fuel, wildland-urban-interface homes across the eastern Sierra face fire exposure that flatland systems weren't designed for. EmberX Defense is built for exactly this terrain.
Reno
NevadaFoothill and canyon homes along the eastern Sierra face increasing wildfire exposure. EmberX keeps watching and deploys retardant automatically when evacuation leaves your property undefended.
Lake Tahoe
California / NevadaDense forest, steep terrain, and unreliable municipal supply during fires make Tahoe Basin properties especially vulnerable to ember storms. An on-site retardant reservoir means the system never waits on a hydrant.
Truckee
CaliforniaMountain communities at elevation with long fire seasons and fast-moving evacuation orders. The central computer tracks your zone's status on WatchDuty and arms itself before you've finished packing.
Carson City
NevadaCapital region homes at the wildland-urban interface benefit from grid-independent defense that detects, decides, and deploys on its own power — even after utilities are cut.
05 / Questions
Straight answers.
Three independent detection layers — perimeter thermal nodes, an ambient air sensor, and thermal cameras — vote. Under normal conditions (Level 1), all three must agree before retardant deploys. When a red flag warning or evacuation notice raises the system to Level 2, any two are enough. Under a GO NOW order (Level 3), a single detection deploys immediately. Escalating danger lowers the bar; calm conditions keep it high.
06 / Early Access
Fire season doesn't wait. Neither should you.
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