Weaving Wisdom: Athena’s Approach to Wildfire Risk
Optimizing Mitigation Actions and Strategically Refining Operational Procedures
In the pantheon of Greek mythology, Athena, the goddess of wisdom, warfare, and crafts is revered for her strategic prowess in battle and her skillful weaving of intricate patterns. Athena Intelligence draws inspiration from her multifaceted persona, by embracing the goddess’ attributes of weaving together data for strategic decision-making. Athena Intelligence’s core technology is a conditional, geospatial, profiling algorithm.
Athena was “birthed” from Zeus’ head. She is associated with intellect and strategic acumen, with a focus on planning and foresight. While the goddess’ primary association is with military strategy and battle tactics, the team at Athena Intelligence associates her with weaving. The company’s algorithm weaves together disaggregated and unstructured data, which has been sourced from dozens of databases, including records of other fires that have occurred in the area and property damage reports. Combined with insights from the academics who research fire behavior, the corporate goal is to assist managers in understanding future wildfire risk to make data-driven strategically informed decisions.
The data for wildfire insights already exists, but coming from multiple sources, in different formats. Athena’s core competency is combining vast amounts of data originating from various wildfire and environmental agencies and organizations. Athena’s Voice of the Acre technology synthesizes this data into a usable and computable format. The conditions that drive a wildfire’s behavior and ultimate destructive potential are dynamic and fundamentally geospatial. Geospatial formatted and structured data is different from traditional non-geospatial data as it is indexed to a specific location on the Earth’s surface.
Geospatial data allows for spatial relationships to be utilized in Athena’s models, analytics, and predictions.
Athena Intelligence is dedicated to weaving together data from the land, for use by organizations in strategic decision-making. Inspired by the goddess’s wisdom and dexterity, Athena leverages existing data and research, geospatial analytics, machine learning algorithms, and predictive modeling to unravel the complexities of wildfire on landscapes. Like the skilled weaver crafting a tapestry of intricate patterns, Athena integrates disparate data from multiple sources that normally take teams of researchers to pull together into common questions: What is the risk at this location? What should I do to reduce the risk? Where is there less risk for a new electical line? If the equipment creates a spark, where will that create a DSE (a Deep S*** Event of consequence)?
Through profiling the land, Athena creates a cohesive narrative about the wildfire risk of the land, before human intervention, which can guide strategic decision-making.
Just as Athena’s strategic counsel was sought by ancient heroes, communities, power generators, and businesses in the electric transmission and distribution industry, today turn to Athena for guidance in assessing these risks, optimizing mitigation projects and adjusting operating procedures, based on weather.
With the ability to see future risks, Athena empowers utilities and communities to make informed decisions and stay ahead of the curve.
Athena’s conditional algorithms create an association with weaving with machine learning and creativity associated with new perspectives. The Greek goddess was master of the loom and created intricate patterns. This aspect of her persona symbolizes the fusion of intellect and creativity, precision and innovation — qualities that resonate deeply with the team at Athena Intelligence. Inspired by her wisdom, and creative prowess, the team embraces the challenge of weaving together data improve human life by reducing wildfire risk.
Athena Intelligence is a data vendor with a geospatial, conditional, profiling tool that pulls together vast amounts of disaggregated wildfire and environmental data to generate spatial intelligence, resulting in a digital fingerprint of wildfire risk.
