Fire Fighting
Eye-in-The-Sky: UASs Provided Hazardous Materials Drill View
A fleet of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) consisting of aerial drones and miniature aerostats were used to provide live situational awareness at a joint...
Wearable Sensor to Alert on Soldiers and Firefighters Dehydration
A wearable sensor that can monitor a person’s skin hydration for use in applications that need to detect dehydration before it poses a health...
UAVs – Life Saving Tool for Fire-Fighting and Rescue Missions
Emergency Response departments are adopting UAVs to help save lives. The Canadian Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency (HRFE) has recently recruited two thermal imaging...
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 Rescue and Patrol Unmanned Helicopter in the Works
Leonardo-Finmeccanica has begun the test campaign of its remotely piloted helicopter SW-4 ‘Solo’.
Leonardo is an Italian multinational aerospace, defence and security company, headquartered...
Boeing Attempting to Change The Fire Fighting Game
Aircraft manufacturer Boeing is looking to chip in on the fire-fighting business revolution by applying two contemporary pieces of technology - drones and augmented...
Drones Would Fly 24/7 Thanks to Autonomous Solution
A recent patent application by Boeing reveals an autonomous solution that would allow dual-use drones to operate for months, overcoming the battery life problem.
The...
Fire Awareness and Early Intelligence – Camera Network More Efficient?
Cameras are replacing aircraft in fire awareness. A network of high definition cameras placed on peaks throughout the Lake Tahoe region in the US...
Smart Mapping Technology Helps Fighting Forest Fires
A smart mapping technology helps responding to and pre-empting forest fires. The smart map by Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) Sinar Mas from Indonesia...
The Modern Day A-Team
Lockheed Martin demonstrated for the first time how its models of optionally-piloted helicopters and small UAS can work together to successfully locate and extinguish...
Law Enforcement Robotics – New Anti-Terrorist Means
Law enforcement robot markets at $1 billion in 2015 are anticipated to reach $5.7 billion by 2022, according to a new market research report....
No More White Nights for FireFighters?
The Fire Station Alerting System, PrimeAlert, is supposed to help speed response times & reduce stress and sleep deprivation for first responders in Ohio
Locution...
Wanted: A Large Ship-Based UAV for Multiple Purposes
The Marine Corps is in the early phases of developing a large Group 5 unmanned aerial system (UAS) that would operate from a ship...
New Start-Up for DHS Wearable Technology Accelerator
Vault RMS, the company behind the platform that tracks firefighters’ exposure to toxic substances, announced earlier this month that it was accepted into the...
UAVs for Indonesian Rescue Missions
The use of UAVs for mapping disaster areas, evaluating the damage, monitoring wide range fires or earthquakes, especially in areas that cannot be accessed...
Petrus Group – from Breaching Tools to UAVs Engines
Petrus Group specializes in representing foreign companies in Israel as well as dealing with worldwide marketing, establishing industrial co-operations and consultations for aerospace, hi-tech,...
New Airspace Control System Uses GSM Networks
A new Russian dual purpose airspace control system is capable of identifying and tracking UAVs, cruise missiles and low-flying aircraft by using GSM networks....
Prototype UAV will Conduct Aerial Fire Ignitions
A new Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) prototype, designed as a cheaper and safer alternative for conducting aerial ignitions of high intensity fire, is under...
New System will Inform Drone Pilots on Wildfires
The first US national system intended to prevent hobby drones from interfering with planes and helicopters fighting wildfires has launched.
Privately flown drones pose serious...
Future Forces Conference – a Look into a High-Tech Future
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A look into the future, that was the main focus of the Future Forces Conference in Rishon Le zion today.
Organized by i-HLS,...
Integrated New Technologies for First Responders Demonstrated
In order to ensure that future first responder are better protected, connected, and fully aware, there must be more ruggedized protective equipment, reliable and...
New Open Source 3D Database for Ballistics Toolmark Research
Identifying the firearm used in a crime is more complicated than shown in the movies. However, the basic setup is correct. Ballistics examiners match...
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