I'm a telecommunications expert — here's how I think IoT can help prevent wildfires and save our forests

Carsten Brinkschulte/Dryad; Getty Images; BI

• Carsten Brinkschulte, who founded Dryad Networks, built an IoT network to detect wildfires.
• He's motivated by the impact of his work and urges founders and engineers to move to green tech.
• This article is part of "5G Playbook," a series exploring one of our time's most important tech innovations.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Carsten Brinkschulte, the CEO of Dryad Networks, an IoT company offering wildfire-detection tech.