SAR Drone
Using AI to find missing people & assist in disaster relief
What is The Sar Drone?
SAR (Search-and-rescue) is a new AI powered modification for the DJI Mavic Mini Drone that allows it to do what few drones have done before: rather than using costly, unreliable, and ethically questionable human or canine search and rescue teams, The SAR Drone use Artificial Intelligence to locate missing people and disaster victims.
Features:
Let’s dive in to the features and technology that make the SAR Drone so useful:
- The standard high-resolution camera and the additional thermal camera provide clear information and data for the AI to analyze or to be viewed by humans
- Provides two-way audio for rescue teams to communicate
- Can deliver small supply drops under 170g
- Can resist winds up to 30km/h
- Records and stores the camera feed from every mission
- Can be taken over by a human operator at any point throughout the mission
- Is able to pair with multiple SAR Drones to conduct synchronised sweeps of given areas
Applications:
SAR Drones excel at many different tasks that can aid or replace human and canine rescue teams, which can reduce unnecessary casualties while searching for victims in these emergency situations. A few of the primary tasks at which the SAR Drones excel at include finding disaster victims in remote areas and marking coordinates, conducting sweeps of specific areas to mark the coordinates of all people in said area, delivering small supply drops to specific locations, and providing a bird’s eye view of almost any emergency situation.
How does it work?
The SAR Drone uses a dual camera setup and a neural network to detect where it suspects any humans may be and marks their coordinates to be viewed in real time or later on by rescue personnel. The modifications can be installed by simply attaching the secondary thermal camera to the drone next to the primary camera gimbal, attaching the speaker/microphone combo, and installing our custom firmware on the drone’s onboard computer.
