We’ve featured a lot of Arduino projects focused on the indoors and home automation in the past, with outdoor builds being more difficult to come by.

When we do find them they’re usually worth your time, as is the case with this Forest Fire Detector by Sigfox software engineer Louis Moreau.

The core of the project is an Arduino MKRFOX1200 hooked up to an array of sensors and a 1200mAh battery. Those sensors include a Waveform flame sensor module, a DHT11 temperature & humidity sensor, and an IR receiver.

You can see the prototype in use below, picking up the flame from a regular lighter. When the LED lights up the fire has been detected.