Lesnoy Dozor - about project and company

1. System for forest monitoring and early detection of forest fires
Limited Liability Company “DiSiCon” (DSC LLC) was founded in the city of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) in 2010. The team develops, sells and implements the early warning system for forest fires “Lesnoy Dozor” (“Forest/Wood Watch” – transl.). It is an early warning system for forest fires. The system is also good at plotting fires’ coordinates. For this purpose any towers, modern equipment and own software are used. All of this helps “Lesnoy Dozor” to find forest fires efficiently.
The system operation principle is rather simple. Special surveillance equipment (video cameras, thermal imagers, infrared cameras, etc.) is installed on various towers. These sensors observe the adjacent zone and transmit the video to control centeras at once.
As soon as forest fires are detected the control center operator is warned by the system; at the same time the video and the coordinates are showed on the display of this computer. After that the operator makes the final decision.
None of the modern forest fires detection systems can be deployed without preliminary design. That’s why our specialists have developed ForCAS – methodology and a set of tools in order to configure "Lesnoy Dozor" system to satisfy customers’ wants. ForCAS (Forest Coverage Analysis System) allows customers to estimate “Lesnoy Dozor” functionality in general as well as its specific characteristics and correct them in a good time if needed.
Our system is used in 33 regions of Russia, though it could be applied in any part of the world.
Strengths:
 Automatic monitoring.
 Real-time data streaming.
 Up to 30 cameras per one operator.
 Coordinates calculation.
 A lot cheaper than aircraft monitoring.
 Third-party sources data integration, including satellite, weather, etc.
 Unlimited number of users and control centers.
Weaknesses:
 Needs electricity and internet connection on towers.
 Less precise coordinates calculation than an aircraft gives.
Potential customers:  Forestry departments (about 1500 in Russia);  Wildlife sanctuaries, national parks (about 150 in Russia);  Ministry for Emergency Situations;  Administration of the settlements adjacent to forest;  Tenants (162 million ha rented - 20% of the forest area in Russia);  Companies which industrial sites are located in the forest;  Forest enterprises (89 regional departments in Russia). In the world 3-4 times bigger.

2. Achievements:
 2011: the winner of the contest “Start-Up of the Year”. The best socially-significant project (Russia).
 2011: the participant of exhibition “Scientific and Technical Achievements of Russia” in Madrid.
 2011: ITU TELECOM WORLD 2011 participant (Switzerland).
 2012: the project is included in Register of innovative products recommended in Russia.
 In February 2012 DSC LLC entered Skolkovo Innovation Centre (IT Cluster).
 Top 10 Russian startup rating 2012 and 2013 member with highest AAA rating.
 Semifinalist of contest CleanTech Open Russia 2014, AAA rating confirmed.
 Semifinalist of international contest Cisco IoT Innovation Grand Challenge 2014.
Intellectual property and publications:
 Intellectual property registration: 2 patents (+ 3 patent applications), 2 international applications PCT (has been internationally published) + 1 patent application, 1 application for Eurasion patent, 1 application for US patent, 10 software products for computer.
 6 publications in different conferences dedicated to Forest Fires problem.
Contact information Limited liability company “DSC”
14 Cherepichniy village, Nizhny Novgorod, 603141, Russia Telephone/fax +7 (831) 411-55-97
Web
www.lesdozor.ru/en E-mail info@lesdozor.ru
CEO
Ivan Shishalov
shishalov@lesdozor.ru Director of Software Engineering Andrey Filimonov filimonov@lesdozor.ru
Technical Director
Yaroslav Solovyov
solovyov@lesdozor.ru Commercial Director Dmitry Bulgatov bulgatov@lesdozor.ru