“Bugs” to Assist First Responders
An original technology allows the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and insect cyborgs, or biobots, to map large and unsafe zones, like cities...
New sUAS Missions Vary from Surveillance to Disaster Assemssment
A new sUAS (small unmanned aircraft system) was recently introduced to market – the STORM – a small tactical UAS that comes as a...
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...
Robot Assistance Following Italian Earthquake
In the aftermath of the earthquake that struck the Italian town of Amatrice and its surrounding region a couple of months ago, Italian authorities...
Drones Instead of Engineers in Effort to Find Landslides
Drones help protect West Virginia from landslides.
Woolpert Inc., a Beavercreek-based engineering firm, says its UAS are now monitoring landslide areas in northern West...
China’s First Emergency UAV Rescue Team
Earlier this month, China has launched the first-in-the-country emergency rescue team that will use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Beijing Daily reports.
Six UAVs are now...
The Smartphone App That Could Save You From Earthquakes
The Seismological Laboratory at the University of California Berkeley has released a new app: MyShake. The app isn’t meant for at-home Zumba hopefuls, but...
Soon Drones Could 3D Print Buildings
Swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) will soon be printing emergency shelter for survivors of natural disasters, or buildings, or any large structure. This...
Government opens emergency events databases
It seems this is the age of government transparency in the United States as lately more and more government authorities are opening their emergency...
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Future Forces 4 HLS
The upcoming conference for the HLS Future Forces is to be held on July 21st, bringing with...
Integrating robots in disaster areas
This last weekend was a highlight for 23 teams from around the world that took part in the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency contest....
Drones for emergency services
The emergency service of Ireland is currently researching the use of the remote-controlled aircraft, also known as “Quadcopters”, for major incidents in what have...
An Assisting Technology that Can Save Life
The daily routine of the emergency service personnel, cops, fire fighters and emergency medicine doctors, is packed full with a wide variety of events,...
A New Command Car for the Firefighting Services
These days, we finished building the command post vehicle for the firefighting services, which is the national command post. The vehicle was built in...
iHLS TV Special report – GPS for accurate airdrops
Some of the weapons and ammunition that were airdropped by the coalition aircraft fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria , missed the planned drop...
A new tool for spotting buried victims
The U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), in partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Jet Propulsion...
Preparation for Earthquakes: Monitor, Predict, Prevent, Control
Preparing ahead of emergency situations and mass disasters on a national scales is not ’recommended’ or subject to considerations of cost or likelihood. Rather,...
How drones are helping the Nepal earthquake relief effort
Drones are proving a crucial high-tech tool for aid workers in the aftermath of the devastating Nepal earthquake. With the death toll from Saturday’s...
India is sending UAVs to map destruction
With communication lines down and the sheer scale of the disaster in Nepal making things unmanageable, India is sending UAVs to Kathmandu to map...
Iranian plan for EMP attack on the US
According to WND news site a “secret” Iranian military handbook confirms that Iran is including among its arsenal of plans, to launch a nuclear...
A weather radio for earthquakes
When it comes to earthquakes, early warning systems are based on a simple principle: the shaking from an earthquake travels at about the speed...
Major Rollout of California’s Earthquake Early Warning System Planned for 2015
Officials are planning the first major rollout of California's earthquake early warning system next year, providing access to some schools, fire stations and more...
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$20 Million in Sight: New Partnership Targets the Smart Sensing Market
Protecting borders, critical infrastructure, and transportation corridors is becoming increasingly challenging as the number of threats and users operating within these environments continues to...
