Smart boots, fusion engine and aerial assets for enhanced situational awareness and safety in search & rescue operations

Harris Georgiou; Alexis Vlachopoulos; Aspasia Tzeletopoulou; Georgios Diles; Eva Jaho; Anaxagoras Fotopoulos; Angelos Chatzimichail; Anastasios Karakostas; Panayiota Demosthenous; Antonis Hadjiantonis; Henry Meissner; Thomas Kraft; Adrian Schischmanow; Gustav Tolt; Claudio Paliotta; N. Kerle; Maria Krommyda; Lazaros Karagiannidis; Constantinos Vassilakis; Angelos Amditis

Smart boots, fusion engine and aerial assets for enhanced situational awareness and safety in search & rescue operations

Harris Georgiou, Alexis Vlachopoulos, Aspasia Tzeletopoulou^*, Georgios Diles, Eva Jaho, Anaxagoras Fotopoulos, Angelos Chatzimichail, Anastasios Karakostas, Panayiota Demosthenous, Antonis Hadjiantonis, Henry Meissner, Thomas Kraft, Adrian Schischmanow, Gustav Tolt, Claudio Paliotta, N. Kerle, Maria Krommyda, Lazaros Karagiannidis, Constantinos Vassilakis, Angelos Amditis

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Innovative technologies can enhance operational capabilities of First Responders (FRs) during Search & Rescue (SAR) operations, while at the same time increasing safety levels. The INGENIOUS project1 (EU Horizon 2020) aims at developing, integrating, testing and validating a next generation SAR toolkit for collaborative response, which ensures high level of protection and augmented operational capacity in disaster situations. In this paper, a subset of components of the toolkit mostly focused on increasing situational awareness and safety are described: the Fusion Engine (FE), which receives data from multiple sources, stores and analyzes them for integration purposes regarding situational awareness and sends them to the Common Operational Picture (COP) as well as the mobile FR terminals; the Smart Boots (SB), which collect data of individual FRs and provide information regarding their health status and alerts; the Modular Airborne Camera System (MACS); the Multi‐purpose Autonomous eXploring (MAX) drone for indoor/outdoor mapping and assessment of unknown environments; and the Micro INdoor drones (MINs) used for FRs indoor localization. The functionalities of these components, as well as the first prototypes developed and currently under lab and field test, are presented in this paper.

Original language	English
Pages	129-132
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 14 Oct 2020
Event	7th International Conference on Civil Protection & New Technologies, SafeGreece 2020 - Online Duration: 14 Oct 2020 → 17 Oct 2020 Conference number: 7 https://safegreece.org/safegreece2020/index.php/en/

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Conference	7th International Conference on Civil Protection & New Technologies, SafeGreece 2020
Abbreviated title	SafeGreece 2020
City	Online
Period	14/10/20 → 17/10/20
Internet address	https://safegreece.org/safegreece2020/index.php/en/

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Search and rescue
fusion engine
Smart boots
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
Drone
First responder
Tactical awareness

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Georgiou, H., Vlachopoulos, A., Tzeletopoulou, A., Diles, G., Jaho, E., Fotopoulos, A., Chatzimichail, A., Karakostas, A., Demosthenous, P., Hadjiantonis, A., Meissner, H., Kraft, T., Schischmanow, A., Tolt, G., Paliotta, C., Kerle, N., Krommyda, M., Karagiannidis, L., Vassilakis, C., & Amditis, A. (2020). Smart boots, fusion engine and aerial assets for enhanced situational awareness and safety in search & rescue operations. 129-132. Paper presented at 7th International Conference on Civil Protection & New Technologies, SafeGreece 2020, Online.

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