Future drones for emergency management
The goal is to set up a start-up to develop an autonomous and flexible platform dedicated to search and rescue operations, in particular to support the Fire Brigade or Civil Protection in operations ranging from finding people to avalanche rescue, and to the discovery of “improvised explosive devices”.
The project was designed to develop drones equipped with sensors that will collect images in the visible spectrum and thermal images, and that will send them to a software system that analyzes them and spots useful elements to be brought to the attention of rescuers, so that they can make faster decisions.
Fondazione Bruno Kessler deals with the research and development part concerning strategic planning software modules and artificial vision systems.