As power utilities face tightening insurance markets, severe inverse condemnation exposure and the operational strain of Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS), Matrix Wildfire has announced the deployment of its GUARDIAN Utility System.

The platform delivers proactive, landscape-scale Massive Area Fire Denial (MAFD) engineered specifically for high-voltage transmission lines, distribution spans and remote substations. 

Wildfire Mitigation

Utility vegetation management remains largely labor-intensive, slow and reactive, leaving fuel-loaded wildland-urban interface (WUI) corridors vulnerable to equipment faults, line slaps and catastrophic wildfire liability, according to the company.

Here are some benefits of the GUARDIAN system. 

• Long-Term Vegetation De-Risking: The GUARDIAN system deploys food-grade, non-toxic CitroTech retardant chemistry across utility rights-of-way, chemically neutralizing dry brush and undergrowth to eliminate flash fuels months ahead of ignition conditions.
• Critical Asset and Standoff Defense: Creates multi-layer, defensible firebreaks around wooden poles, transformer banks and substations, using high-capacity mobile turbine units capable of projecting atomized retardant hundreds of feet into rugged terrain.
• Underwriter-Grade Compliance: Features spatial mapping and IoT telemetry logging that document treated corridor acreage, providing auditable loss-control data to negotiate favorable excess casualty terms and demonstrate proactive standards of care.

If your team is evaluating proactive corridor hardening, pilot programs or underwriting risk-engineering requirements, connect with the company to review technical specifications. For more information, visit the website.