# PRAESI Technologies Ltd > PRAESI (Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus) is building an operator-supervised wildfire-response system. PRAESI Mission Control software links early warning, detection, human authorisation, drone-delivered suppression and independent outcome verification, so each next step proceeds only on evidence of what actually happened. Its first hardware product, the SPM-30, is a swappable, self-powered ~30 L suppression payload module for heavy-lift drones. The system is patented in the UK. Key facts (as of October 2026): - Legal name: PRAESI Technologies Ltd; registration HE 483138; incorporated 7 November 2025; VAT CY60308617C; Aigeos 3, Egkomi, Nicosia 2413, Cyprus. - Status: technology readiness level 2-3. A 26-screen Mission Control MVP (native macOS) is built; an 18-month laboratory and hardware-in-the-loop programme for the SPM-30 is planned (Pixhawk / ArduPilot). - PRAESI Technologies Ltd is a member of the NVIDIA Inception program. - Team: Manthos Stefanou (Founder & Director); Christian Stylianides (Head of R&D); Irene Drakou (Head of Communications, Stakeholder Engagement). Advisers: Nikos Charalambous (Adviser, Customer Validation & Public Safety). - Contact: briefings@praesi.ai - Images and films on the site are concept visualisations; final configuration remains subject to development. ## Pages - [Home](https://praesi.ai/): what PRAESI is building and why - [Platform](https://praesi.ai/platform): the integrated system, layers and capabilities - [Who We Serve](https://praesi.ai/who-we-serve): civil protection, utilities, forestry, OEM partners, investors - [Milestones](https://praesi.ai/milestones): achieved, in progress and next 6 to 12 months - [Company](https://praesi.ai/company): company facts, approach, team - [Contact](https://praesi.ai/contact): discussion paths and briefing requests - [Media kit](https://praesi.ai/assets): approved images and fact sheet ## Milestones - November 2025: PRAESI Technologies Ltd incorporated in Nicosia, Cyprus (HE 483138). - April 2026: UK patent filed, securing PRAESI’s priority date for international protection. - June 2026: PRAESI Mission Control MVP built, a 26-screen macOS incident workspace with every response step behind explicit human authorisation. - August to September 2026: Mutual NDAs signed with two European UAV and aerospace manufacturers; first airframe price offer received. - September 2026: AWS Activate credits awarded for cloud development. - October 2026: Accepted into the NVIDIA Inception program. - In progress: Horizon Europe proposal (HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-SSRI-01) with university and research partners in Cyprus and Greece, for submission by 5 November 2026. - In progress: SPM-30 bench and hardware-in-the-loop programme (Pixhawk / ArduPilot), technology readiness level 2-3. - In progress: Engagement with fire and civil-protection services in Cyprus and Greece. - Q1 2027: SPM-30 laboratory validation (technology readiness level 4), with a public test summary. - 2027: Simulation rehearsal of authorisation, link-loss and payload-release sequences before flight testing. - 2027: First demonstration with a fire or civil-protection service. - Seed round: Funds the proof-build, from SPM-30 laboratory validation to airframe integration and the first field demonstration. ## Wildfire News - [Norte Fire: When Santa Ana Winds Bring Flames to the Backyard](https://praesi.ai/f/norte-fire-when-santa-ana-winds-bring-flames-to-the-backyard) (2026-10-17): A swimming pool and a line of palm trees sit in the foreground. Beyond the garden, flames burn along the hillside. That is the scene described in a StringersHub video distributed through Reuters Connect on 17 October, sh... - [UK Wildfires: The Readiness Gap Behind a Record Fire Year](https://praesi.ai/f/uk-wildfires-the-readiness-gap-behind-a-record-fire-year) (2026-10-13): A grass fire starts on ground most people pass without a second glance. In a dry spell, wind can carry it across open land towards a road, a business or a row of houses before the first crews have finished sizing it up. ... - [From First Smoke to Fireline: How Wildfire Response Works](https://praesi.ai/f/from-first-smoke-to-fireline-how-wildfire-response-works) (2026-10-03): Image caption: Firefighters in protective gear amid smoky vegetation. Illustrative stock photograph; it does not show the South Dakota incidents discussed below. - [When Wildfire Smoke Reaches the Starting Line](https://praesi.ai/f/when-wildfire-smoke-reaches-the-starting-line) (2026-09-30): Image caption: Haze over a city skyline. Illustrative stock photograph, not a photograph of the September 2026 episode. - [September 2026: The U.S. Fire Year Reached 8.56 Million Acres](https://praesi.ai/f/september-2026-the-us-fire-year-reached-856-million-acres) (2026-09-30): Image caption: The square is an area comparison for the 8,559,888 acres recorded by the U.S. National Interagency Fire Center from 1 January through 25 September 2026. It does not show the shape or location of any fire. - [Can Sheep Slow Wildfires? The Case for Targeted Grazing](https://praesi.ai/f/can-sheep-slow-wildfires-the-case-for-targeted-grazing) (2026-09-19): Sheep graze across a dry hillside. Illustrative stock photograph; not Bennett Ridge. - [August 2026: Fifteen Fires. More Than Two Million Hectares.](https://praesi.ai/f/august-2026-fifteen-fires-more-than-two-million-hectares) (2026-09-12): Imagine a square 143 kilometres wide and 143 kilometres long. Stand at one corner and the opposite edge is roughly the distance of a long intercity journey away. - [Indonesia’s Haze Crisis: Wildfire Becomes a Health Emergency](https://praesi.ai/f/indonesia%E2%80%99s-haze-crisis-wildfire-becomes-a-health-emergency) (2026-09-12): A fire perimeter can be mapped. The reach of its smoke is harder to contain. - [The First Hours Matter: Texas’s Ross & Rapid Wildfire Escalation](https://praesi.ai/f/the-first-hours-matter-texas%E2%80%99s-ross-rapid-wildfire-escalation) (2026-08-29): A wildfire does not need weeks to become a regional emergency. - [From Moorland to Front Door: How UK’s Wildfire Threat Is Changing](https://praesi.ai/f/from-moorland-to-front-door-how-uk%E2%80%99s-wildfire-threat-is-changing) (2026-08-29): For generations, the familiar British image of wildfire has been a distant one: smoke rising from moorland, heath or open countryside, far from the streets where most people live. - [What Belgium’s High Fens Fire Reveals About Wildfire Readiness](https://praesi.ai/f/what-belgium%E2%80%99s-high-fens-fire-reveals-about-wildfire-readiness) (2026-08-22): Villages and visitor accommodation faced precautionary evacuations, the fire approached the German border, and Belgium requested international support through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism. (Wallonie) - [When Wildfires Make Their Own Weather](https://praesi.ai/f/when-wildfires-make-their-own-weather) (2026-08-10): Weather normally helps determine how a wildfire behaves. - [Beyond the Fireline: Wildfire Smoke and the Hidden Health Toll](https://praesi.ai/f/beyond-the-fireline-wildfire-smoke-and-the-hidden-health-toll) (2026-08-01): Beyond the Fireline: Wildfire Smoke and the Hidden Health Toll - [July 2026: Fifteen Major Wildfires Spanned Nearly Size of Kuwait ](https://praesi.ai/f/july-2026-fifteen-major-wildfires-spanned-nearly-size-of-kuwait) (2026-08-01): Fifteen wildfire incidents. Five countries. A combined reported area so large that familiar comparisons struggle to convey it. - [When the Ignition Cannot Be Entered: Lessons From Kalo Chorio](https://praesi.ai/f/when-the-ignition-cannot-be-entered-lessons-from-kalo-chorio) (2026-07-29): The fire began shortly after midday on 27 July 2026 inside the Kalo Chorio military firing range in Larnaca District, during National Guard activity involving the destruction of six discarded rocket-propelled-grenade pro... - [Heatwaves Are Turning Wildfire Response Into a Readiness Problem](https://praesi.ai/f/heatwaves-are-turning-wildfire-response-into-a-readiness-problem) (2026-07-29): For wildfire-risk stakeholders, the lesson is not simply that temperatures are rising. The lesson is that heat-driven fire conditions can quickly expose weaknesses in preparedness, coordination, deployment, visibility, a... - [What Southern Europe’s Wildfire Images Reveal](https://praesi.ai/f/what-southern-europe%E2%80%99s-wildfire-images-reveal) (2026-07-29): Wildfire images often show the most visible parts of an emergency: flames, smoke, helicopters, aircraft, firefighters, evacuations, damaged homes and threatened landscapes. - [Wildfire Cuts Off Escape: Lessons From Spain's Almería Fire](https://praesi.ai/f/wildfire-cuts-off-escape-lessons-from-spains-almer%C3%ADa-fire) (2026-07-29): Every wildfire is different. Every emergency unfolds under unique weather, terrain and operational conditions. - [Wildfire Response as a Network: Lessons From France and Spain](https://praesi.ai/f/wildfire-response-as-a-network-lessons-from-france-and-spain) (2026-07-29): or several days in July 2026, France and Spain were not confronting one wildfire emergency. They were managing several major fires at the same time. ## Optional - [Full text of the site and all articles](https://praesi.ai/llms-full.txt) - [RSS feed](https://praesi.ai/f.rss)