South Korea’s New Patent Makes use of Floor-Based mostly Drones and Airborne Cameras to Rebuild Networks for Search and Rescue
by DRONELIFE Employees Author Ian J. McNab
In catastrophe response conditions, re-establishing usually broken communications community is a crucial a part of coordinating search and rescue efforts. The Republic of Korea Pure Catastrophe Administration Analysis Institute lately obtained a US Patent (serial #US2024161597) for a brand new disaster-response software for UAVs- utilizing a ground-based unmanned automobile with an antenna as a “base station” for an externally mounted, airborne flying drone geared up with a digital camera.
In response to the patent, the bottom primarily based drone would come with storage containing small, wirelessly related repeater modules that could possibly be dropped alongside its path, type of like Hansel and Gretel’s breadcrumbs. These repeater modules would each guarantee a robust connection between the bottom drone and the digital camera UAV and presumably be used to revive different alerts, like downed cell connection networks.
“A tool for establishing a communication community and amassing scenario data at a website of a collapse catastrophe is disclosed. The gadget features a floor drone 10 deployed on the website of the collapse catastrophe, the bottom drone 10 having a communication gadget 80 mounted thereon, a flying drone 32 mounted on and carried by the bottom drone 10 to fly and {photograph} the positioning of the collapse catastrophe, a digital camera gadget 40 mounted on the bottom drone 10 to {photograph} environment of the bottom drone 10, a storage 50 put in on the bottom drone 10, and a plurality of repeater modules 60 related by the wi-fi communication community to relay wi-fi communications between the bottom drone 10, the flying drone 32, and a command and management middle 100, whereby the storage 50 accommodates the repeater modules 60, and throws the repeater modules 60 in response to an operation sign.”
Different latest information from the UAV search and rescue house consists of Tokyo-based telecommunications operator KDDI Company and Japan Airways’ lately introduced profitable take a look at and demonstration of their multi-drone catastrophe response system in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Additionally take a look at Dronelife Options Editor Jim Magill’s latest exploration of how a neighborhood fireplace division in Magnolia, Texas has built-in UAVs into their catastrophe response strategy.
Extra data on the South Korean catastrophe response drone patent, together with authors, is obtainable right here.
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