{"id":283022,"date":"2026-06-27T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/kelowna-tech-company-pilots-ai-evacuation-planning-tool-with-lytton-area-first-nations\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:25:15","slug":"kelowna-tech-company-pilots-ai-evacuation-planning-tool-with-lytton-area-first-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/kelowna-tech-company-pilots-ai-evacuation-planning-tool-with-lytton-area-first-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelowna tech company pilots AI evacuation planning tool with Lytton-area First Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cfjctoday.com\/2026\/06\/27\/kelowna-tech-company-pilots-ai-evacuation-planning-tool-with-lytton-area-first-nations\/\">Kelowna tech company pilots AI evacuation planning tool with Lytton-area First Nations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cfjctoday.com\/2026\/06\/27\/kelowna-tech-company-pilots-ai-evacuation-planning-tool-with-lytton-area-first-nations\/\">https:\/\/cfjctoday.com\/2026\/06\/27\/kelowna-tech-company-pilots-ai-evacuation-planning-tool-with-lytton-area-first-nations\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-27 12:19:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cfjctoday.com\">cfjctoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit: IntelliMass.ai \/ contributed)<\/p>\n<p>By <span class=\"sc-author\">Elora McCormack<\/span><\/p>\n<p>AI evacuation tech<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sc-time\">Jun 27, 2026 | 9:13 AM<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>LYTTON, B.C. \u2014 A Kelowna tech firm is working with 10+ First Nations communities around Lytton to pilot an evacuation planning tool powered by artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n<p>The tech, BackRoadIntel, is an AI-powered infrastructure intelligence platform from IntelliMass.ai that monitors road conditions and transportation networks in rural and remote areas.<\/p>\n<p>IntelliMass.ai said the system identifies potential issues that could impact emergency access or evacuation efforts, such as washouts, drainage failures, rough road segments, vehicle-clearance risks and other hazards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen an emergency hits, people can\u2019t just rely on Google Maps. It might show you a road, but you don\u2019t know if that road is paved or not, if it\u2019s just for logging trucks, how wide or narrow it might be, if your low-riding sedan can clear it, that it was partially destroyed by a landslide two weeks ago, if it can handle a long line of evacuees, and more,\u201d said Ryan Gallagher, co-founder and CEO of IntelliMass.ai.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cfjctoday.com\/2026\/06\/27\/kelowna-tech-company-pilots-ai-evacuation-planning-tool-with-lytton-area-first-nations\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelowna tech company pilots AI evacuation planning tool with Lytton-area First Nations https:\/\/cfjctoday.com\/2026\/06\/27\/kelowna-tech-company-pilots-ai-evacuation-planning-tool-with-lytton-area-first-nations\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2311\/files\/2026\/06\/13b61f9f-8b72-44ef-a3f6-796100e42849-1200x675.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283024,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283022\/revisions\/283024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}