Qwake, webAI Partnership Provides Predictive Intelligence to the Fireground

In order to provide predictive AI capabilities for emergency response, starting with fire departments, webAI established a strategic agreement with Qwake Technologies. The partnership combines Qwake's critical operations platform with webAI's edge intelligence infrastructure to provide incident commanders with better information when it counts most.

Fire departments are on the front lines of the severe fiscal capacity demands that cities across the nation are experiencing. Although every second matters in the high-stakes profession of fire safety, the equipment that firefighters use hasn't really altered in decades, making it a crucial place to start for innovation. AI is being applied outside of the lab thanks to webAI's partnership with Qwake. This collaboration offers the fireground a concrete, comprehensible response by delivering intelligence right to the source of data. It enhances operational effectiveness, enables operators, command, and municipal officials better manage risk and opens up more capacity without requiring more resources.

“AI shouldn’t live in a distant cloud. It should be a practical tool that helps people in their own communities,” said David Stout, founder and CEO of webAI. “In partnering with Qwake to bring edge intelligence to the fireground, we are giving our first responders the real-time, mission-critical technology they need to stay safe and stay ahead of crisis.”

Qwake's work in the field is perfectly aligned with webAI's basic methodology, which brings intelligence to where data originates rather than transporting data to where intelligence resides. Qwake presently integrates sensors and AI directly into the emergency, on people and cars, unleashing operational intelligence from the inside out for cities throughout the nation, while webAI provides the platform to design, deploy, and constantly enhance proprietary AI models at the edge. The two businesses are in a position to provide a predictive, edge intelligence solution designed for the contemporary fireground.

“Today, C-THRU puts sensors on the people and vehicles closest to the crisis. That gives us real-time data from inside the most dangerous environments on earth,” said Sam Cossman, CEO of Qwake. “webAI's edge intelligence accelerates our roadmap from rapid response to prediction, and that changes everything about how cities can protect their communities.”

The escalation prediction tool is the initial phase of a more comprehensive plan that webAI and Qwake discuss how intelligent infrastructure might be implemented in various cities.