Lookout towers
Good at: a trained spotter reading smoke against a skyline they know by heart.
Cannot cover: anything behind a ridge, anything past the horizon, and every hour the tower is unmanned.
80%
of South Africa's commercial timber loss is fire
53M ha
burnt across Africa in the first half of 2025
4 × 4 m
the smallest fire the constellation detects
COVERAGE
You already have detection. This is about the gaps in it.
Towers and sensors are good at what they cover. The question is what is left over. On most estates, that is nearly all of it.
Detection cameras
Good at: watching a fixed viewshed automatically, day and night, with no one sitting in the tower.
Cannot cover: still only what the mast can see, and every ridge you want covered needs its own mast, power and signal.
Ground sensor networks
Good at: catching a fire early in the exact stand where the sensor sits.
Cannot cover: the ground you did not instrument, which on a large estate is most of it.
Thermal satellite
Good at: watching the entire estate at once, through smoke, day and night.
Honest limit: it sees heat, not intent. It tells you where and when. Your people still decide what to do.
IN SERVICE
Companies currently being monitored 24Hrs a day.
- South African National Parks
- WWF Zambia
- Merensky Timbers
Kruger National Park
Nearly two million hectares of bushveld, most of it hours from the nearest road. Coverage is not a feature there. It is the only way the ground gets watched at all.
WWF Zambia
Miombo woodland across borders, monitored from the same constellation and the same platform.
Merensky Timbers
Standing timber is a crop that burns. Detection here is measured against the value of a compartment.
Thanks to OroraTech we are able to monitor the wildfires as well as gather the information needed to analyse their spatio-temporal pattern, which is a very important component for designing an integrated fire management plan.
THE PLATFORM BEHIND US
A local team, on a global constellation.
You deal with us in Ballito. What you are buying into is OroraTech, whose platform runs in 25 countries and watches half a billion hectares.
- 800+users in 25 countries
- 500M haof monitored area
- 14of their own thermal satellites in low Earth orbit
- 170+people across 5 continents
Source: OroraTech, August 2026
THE PLATFORM
What it does, in the order you need it.
01
Risk forecast
Nine days of fire danger ahead, with wind, temperature, humidity, lightning and fuel moisture on the same map.
SHORT-TERM FIRE HAZARD FORECAST
02
Detection
Over 35 satellite sources, several passes an hour, filtered for false positives, down to fires 4 by 4 metres.
LIVE DETECTION IN THE FIELD
03
Fire spread
Where the front is likely to run next, up to 24 hours ahead, from the weather, the terrain and the fuel it is moving through.
FIRE SPREAD MODEL · STELLENBOSCH TO FRANSCHHOEK
04
Burnt area
Burn scar and severity mapping, five severity classes, delivered automatically two to three days after the fire is out.
BURNT AREA · HIGH RESOLUTION
THE FIRST HOUR
How an alert actually reaches you.
- 01
A satellite passes
Thermal infrared, through smoke, several times an hour.
- 02
The heat signal is checked
Algorithms strip out the flare stacks, the hot roofs and the sun glint before anyone is woken up.
- 03
Your phone goes
WhatsApp, SMS, email or in app, within minutes, only for the areas you monitor.
- 04
The coordinates open on a map
Location, estimated size, and the terrain around it.
- 05
Your crew rolls
To a place, not a rumour.
WHO THIS IS FOR
If the area is yours to manage, OroraTech is the tool to monitor it.
Forestry and plantations
Standing timber, compartment by compartment.
Wildfire detection for plantationsConservancies and game reserves
Large, remote, and mostly unwatched at night.
Wildfire monitoring for reservesUtilities and transmission corridors
Long thin assets nobody can patrol end to end.
Fire detection for power networksMunicipalities and FPAs
Shared awareness across members and boundaries.
Detection for municipalities and FPAsInsurance and risk
Independent evidence of what burned, and when.
Burn mapping for insurers
WHY US
Supported locally, backed by OroraTech.
Our customers are supported by OroraTech and by Optimum Geomatics here in South Africa. Same constellation, same platform, with people you can actually reach.
- Onboarding done with your team, on your estate
- Your timezone, and a WhatsApp number that answers
- Set up around how your FPA already works
- Invoiced in rand
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