Dryad Networks
Solar-powered gas sensor networks that detect smouldering wildfires before flames or visible smoke appear.
WildfireEberswalde, GermanyFounded 2020
Dryad Networks deploys solar-powered IoT sensor networks for ultra-early wildfire detection, capable of identifying fires within 60 minutes even in remote forests. Their gas sensors detect smouldering fires by analysing air composition before flames or visible smoke appear. The company operates sensor installations across Europe and North America.
What Boreal Tech Brief reported
#06529 Sep 2026 · News
Dryad's fire network told the real ignitions from the decoys
XPRIZE ran the final of its wildfire contest in the Alaskan bush in June: live fires, plus lures built to trigger a false alarm. Berlin's Dryad, last here in #042 with 1,100 units on Colorado aspen, fielded 170 solar-powered gas sensors and flagged the real ones inside twelve minutes. Silvaguard drones then flew out, confirmed by infrared camera and dropped up to 100 litres of suppressant. That won second prize on 23 September, 800,000 dollars against Anduril's 2.2 million.
#04228 Apr 2026 · Customer
Cordillera Hangs 1,100 Dryad Silvanet Sensors on Aspen and Douglas Fir
Berlin's Dryad Networks (last in BTB #005) has its second large US deployment locked in: Cordillera Metro District is mounting 1,100 Silvanet smoke and particle sensors across 3,500 acres of Colorado aspen and Douglas fir, $300–400K, install April through August. Sensors push GPS coordinates to a district command center the moment air-quality readings shift, retrained against baseline smoke from other Western fires to keep false positives down. The first US community at this scale was a Florida neighborhood.
#0059 Sep 2025 · News
IoT Enhances Forest Management
The Dryad Networks Blog details how IoT tech is revolutionizing forest management and monitoring, providing advanced capabilities in real-time threat, health, and biodiversity monitoring. This tech supports sustainability and forest conservation.