"We have a moral responsibility to give back to the society. The idea was, first, we started with what can we do in detection of wildfires? But the problem behind wildfires is that you don't have like a lot of that here in Kenya. But then we have a really big problem of deforestation where a lot of trees are being cut for making way to farming and also settlements. So, we've been having a lot of AI being used for a lot a wide range of uses. We have AI in robotics, we have it in military, we have it in education and so on. But when it comes to environmental protection and environmental conservation, there is not enough being done in terms of that," Nguthiru explained.
"The advantages are quite many. First of all, at the top, I think we would put precision and accuracy because now the personnel in the forest department can actually know that this incident is happening at this location, at this time, and it's of this kind. Another thing I would say is at the top because of this is analytics. You know, as a service that deals with forests across the whole country. They need to have data from different aspects, be it weather, be it afforestation, security issues, unsustainable charcoal burning going on in all the locations. And also, I would say it's cost-efficient because our devices are deployed once. The communities have now a platform whereby they can be able to contribute on, or rather help in, management issues and conservation issues," Okemwa remarked.