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Borger council approves five-year lease for Pano AI wildfire‑detection cameras on city tower
Summary
At its Jan. 7 meeting, the Borger City Council approved a five-year lease allowing Pano AI Inc. to mount AI-powered fire-detection cameras on a city-owned tower; the lease is $500 per month with a 3% annual increase and is intended to complement a separate grant-funded system the city is pursuing.
At its Jan. 7 meeting, the Borger City Council approved a five-year lease allowing Pano AI Inc. to install artificial‑intelligence cameras on a city tower to help detect smoke and potential wildfires.
City staff said the cameras would be a small footprint — “literally a couple of cameras” — mounted on a central tower and that the system’s AI “in theory, will identify smoke and send a notification,” giving the city an additional detection resource while Xcel Energy deploys similar cameras across the Texas Panhandle.
The lease terms…
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