Wearable Sensors to Monitor Wounded Combatants in Battlefield
Delivering life-saving care in a battlefield environment is a complex challenge. New wearable sensors will monitor the situation of soldiers in the battlefield as...
Avoiding UAV Collision During Rescue Mission
Unmanned technology plays a major role not only during disasters but also in the aftermath. The Red Cross unmanned aircraft team was supplied with...
New Emergency Function by Smartphone Giants
Apple's new operating system will come with an option to lock your iPhone's fingerprint scanner and bring up a hotline to the police. The...
Police Officer’s Wearable Sensor to Alert in Case of Injury
One of the risks evolving during police operations is that when an officer is injured, the period of time until help arrives might be...
Medical Deliveries by Drone Are Expanding
Drones have been carrying out medical deliveries such as blood samples and vaccines successfully to remote sites in the developing world for some time....
Fog Computing to Replace Cloud Technology
When disaster strikes, it’s crucial that first responders have reliable access to a controlled network, allowing them to receive and deliver critical information while...
Protecting The Protectors
First responders are constantly looking to improve, sharpen their senses and abilities and put their hands on the most innovative and useful equipment. Now,...
Alerting in Emergency Has Never Been Faster
During an emergency situation in a school or any other public institution, it is imperative to have instant communication with 911, first responders, and...
The US Wants its Citizens Aware and Responsive in Emergency
Stop the Bleed is a national awareness campaign and a call to action. Initiated by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Stop the...
An iHLS Startup: Augmented Reality Used for Medical Emergency
Most of us have heard stories, if we haven't witnessed them firsthand, of close family relatives having some sort of seizure or being severely...
New Tool for First Responders
Shortly after 9/11, reports began to emerge that one of the reasons many firefighters died in the attack was that police helicopters circling above...
Effective Management Tool for Large Scale Emergency
Command, control and coordination are highly important when dealing with an emergency situation. An application for managing major incidents and events now has a...
Revolution in Future UAV Fuel Usage?
A team of MIT engineers has come up with an economical UAV design that can hover for long durations to provide wide-ranging communications support...
The Next Level of Emergency Management
New wireless technologies that are designed to assist emergency responders were tested recently at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington. Several organizations partnered together to...
Egozi: Earthquake Preparedness – Positive Initiative Coupled with Failures
By Arie Egozi
Holding a national drill to practice procedures in the event of an earthquake is very good, however, all the preparations seem minor in...
Meet Atlas – the New UGV for Harsh Terrain
A new unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) unveiled recently is designed for use in defense, disaster relief, and rescue missions. The J8 Atlas Xtreme Terrain...
Landrover’s New Rescue SUV Comes With a Drone
Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) has designed and engineered a special version of the new Land Rover Discovery SUV for use by...
A New MDA Unit – Electric Bicycle Riders
When saving people’s life, every second is important and might be critical. Magen David Adom (MD), Israel’s national rescue organization, has recently inaugurated a...
Emergency Vehicles to Help Map Radiation Threat in City
A radiation threat detection system was successfully tested recently by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
DARPA’s SIGMA program—whose goal is to prevent...
Locating First Responders Has Just Become Easy
Keeping firefighters safe and communicating with them have been major technical challenges for decades. While outdoors, they can use GPS to track one another,...
New Emergency Application to Save Lives
Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s national emergency medicine service and Red Cross national society, has released a mobile app that aims to significantly streamline...
Communication Solution for Flood Threats?
Mobile communications company Ping4Inc. has been awarded a development contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate to assist first...
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Drones Could Soon Navigate Collapsed Buildings Without Slowing Down
Flying autonomous drones through unpredictable environments remains one of the biggest technical challenges in robotics. In confined spaces such as collapsed buildings, industrial sites,...
