Shanya Gill is an engineer and an inventor who created a device that can alert people to wildfires within minutes. The 2018 Californian wildfires that claimed the lives of 85 people and causing destruction of thousands of houses significantly influenced her. Shanya, who was seventeen years old at the time, decided to employ her talents in electronics and programming to make an inexpensive wireless sensor network which can supervise temperature, humidity, and smoke changes in remote areas. She named her device ‘Firefly’ which uses artificial intelligence to generate alerts for a mobile application or a web dashboard by using data received through the internet sensors installed on the device. Shanya’s goal is not only to invent a device but also to stop tragedies in future and save the environment from fire’s abusing. For her ideas, she was awarded several prizes like the Google Science Fair 2019 or Young Innovator Award 2020.
