Helping Wildfire Intelligence Move

When Timing Matters Most

When wildfire, lightning, or extreme weather threats emerge, timing can shape what happens next. Utilities, first responders, public safety teams, and critical infrastructure operators need information that helps them understand where risk is developing, what may be affected, and how to respond with greater awareness.

FNN™ aims to transform how wildfire, utility, and emergency response teams may detect, understand, and act on wildfire and lightning risk. Through real-time intelligence, FNN™ helps identify High-Risk-Lightning™ events, detect lightning-related infrastructure damage, and improve situational awareness as conditions evolve.

D-Link supports FNN™ with 5G/4G M2M Cellular IoT solutions designed for systems operating in remote and demanding environments.

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Mission-Critical Intelligence

“At FNN™, our mission is urgent: help identify potential risks and provide critical wildfire and lightning intelligence to reach the people who can use it to protect communities, infrastructure, and lives.”

said Tamas Kereszy,
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at FNN™.

“D-Link’s support helps strengthen the field connectivity that allows our intelligence to move from remote environments into the systems that support emergency response and utility operations.”

Wildfire and utility infrastructure field environment

The Challenge

Traditional wildfire and utility response can be slowed by delayed visibility, fragmented information, and the difficulty of monitoring remote field environments.

A single High-Risk-Lightning™ strike could cause infrastructure issues, advanced wildfire threats, or even severe atmospheric events before teams have a clear understanding of what happened. In those moments, delayed awareness can affect response planning, resource coordination, restoration activity, and public safety decision-making.

FNN™ is helping address this challenge by turning complex field conditions into actionable wildfire, lightning, and utility intelligence.

The FNN™ Solution

FNN™ provides real-time wildfire, lightning, and utility intelligence for electric utilities, first responders, government agencies, broadcast companies, and critical infrastructure teams.

FNN field equipment installation in a remote environment

FNN™ Combines:

Patented High-Risk-Lightning™ / HRL™ detection

Helps identify High-Risk-Lightning™ events that may carry higher wildfire or infrastructure risk.

AI-edge computing

Processes critical field intelligence closer to where the events occur.

Environmental and weather data

Helps evaluate conditions that may influence ignition potential, infrastructure impact, and operational risk.

Geospatial intelligence

Provides location-based insight to help teams better understand where risk is developing.

Operational insight

Supports utilities, emergency response teams, and public safety stakeholders with information that can help improve awareness and decision-making.

FNN™ is not simply detecting lightning. It is helping organizations understand which events may matter most, where risk may be forming, and how field intelligence can support more informed action.

Supporting FNN™ Intelligence in Demanding Field Environments

FNN™ is transforming wildfire, lightning, and utility intelligence by combining High-Risk-Lightning™ detection, AI-edge computing, environmental and weather data, geospatial intelligence, and operational insight to help teams better understand risk as conditions evolve.

D-Link supports FNN™ with 5G/4G M2M Cellular IoT solutions designed for systems operating in remote and demanding environments, helping critical field intelligence move from where risk is developing into the systems that support emergency response and utility operations.

This connection helps FNN™ intelligence reach the teams that depend on timely awareness to coordinate resources, protect infrastructure, and respond with greater confidence.

The Impact

Together, FNN™ and D-Link help support the path from:

Field Detection › Intelligence › Awareness › Action

For utilities

FNN™ intelligence can help support faster awareness of lightning-related infrastructure damage, restoration needs, and operational risk.

For first responders and emergency response teams

FNN™ intelligence can help improve situational awareness when wildfire and lightning conditions are changing quickly.

For public safety and critical infrastructure teams

FNN™ intelligence can help provide earlier visibility into risk that may affect communities, assets, and operations.

For communities

This supports something larger: helping utilities, emergency response teams, and communities make more informed decisions as they work to help protect lives, property, infrastructure, and the places people call home.

FNN and D-Link wildfire intelligence field connectivity visual

Its work helps bring wildfire and lightning intelligence closer to the people who can use it to protect communities and infrastructure.
D-Link is proud to support that mission by helping enable field connectivity for FNN™ systems operating in remote and demanding environments.

Recognition and Credibility

FNN™’s work has earned national recognition, including:

Verizon x MIT Solve Disaster Resilience Prize
Forbes 2026 30 Under 30 – Energy & Green Tech
Recognizing Tamas Kereszy, Co-founder and COO, and Caroline Comeau, Co-founder and CCO
Exclusive Provider of High-Risk-Lightning™ Data for The Weather Channel
Bringing real-time wildfire intelligence to national audiences and helping highlight dangerous lightning activity as fire season unfolds.

These milestones reflect the growing importance of FNN™’s innovation in wildfire intelligence, utility operations, emergency preparedness, and disaster resilience.

D-Link Role Statement

D-Link Systems, Inc. supports FNN™ with 5G/4G M2M Cellular IoT solutions for systems operating in remote and demanding environments, helping critical wildfire, lightning, and utility intelligence move from the field into systems that support emergency response, utility operations, and public safety use cases.

FNN™ Recognized Innovation in Disaster Resilience and Wildfire Intelligence

Verizon × MIT Solve

Disaster Resilience Prize recognition

Forbes 2026 30 Under 30

Energy & Green Tech recognition

The Weather Channel

High-Risk-Lightning™ data provider

FNN™ designs systems that provide AI-powered wildfire, lightning, and utility intelligence solutions for electric utilities, first responders, government agencies, broadcast companies, and critical infrastructure teams.

Its patented High-Risk-Lightning™ / HRL™ technology uses proprietary AI-edge computing sensors to help identify High-Risk-Lightning™ events. This data is then centralized and visualized within the FNN™ Wildfire Hub™.

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D-Link is a global provider of business and industrial networking solutions with more than 40 years of networking experience. The company’s portfolio includes commercial and industrial switching, surveillance and IP camera solutions, 5G/4G connectivity solutions, network management, and M2M IoT solutions designed to support office, edge, industrial, and infrastructure environments.

Procurement Support: Many D-Link Systems, Inc. industrial products are available in configurations intended to support procurement requirements aligned with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and Trade Agreements Act (TAA); customers should confirm applicable SKU eligibility.

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Use Case Study

FNN™ + D-Link
Wildfire Intelligence Use Case Study

See how FNN™ and D-Link support the movement of critical field intelligence from remote environments into systems that support emergency response, utility operations, and public safety use cases.

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