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#145: CAL FIRE's Fire Innovation Unit, Malaysia's Agri-Tech Scaling Gap, Kerala's Dengue Early Warning System
Impact Signals #145: CAL FIRE's Fire Innovation Unit, Malaysia's Agri-Tech Scaling Gap, Kerala's Dengue Early Warning System California's wildfire agency has created a Fire Innovation Unit to test AI smoke-detection cameras, drones and satellite tools, with a formal launch set for January 2027. A World Economic Forum report on Malaysian agriculture finds the constraint is coordinating deployment, not technology readiness. In Kerala, virologists have built a machine-learning system that issues weekly dengue risk tiers for each district. The common thread today is the unglamorous work around…
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