Research Project
FASTER: new technologies for the safety of first aid
Augmented Reality and IoT increase the protection of emergency response teams in dangerous environments, improving their situational awareness and communication systems.
Where: international
Where: international
Challenge
FASTER - First responder Advanced technologies for Safe and efficienT Emergency Response aims to develop tools to enhance the operational capacity of First Responders while increasing their safety in the field.
Approach
A new approach for disaster response to improve Europe’s overall disaster resilience will be established. The project will introduce AR MR VR to improve situational awareness and early risk identification, and Mobile and Wearables for better mission management and information delivery to First Responders. Body and Gesture-based UIs will be employed to enable new capabilities, reducing equipment clutter, offering optimized ergonomics. It will also provide an Autonomous Vehicles platform to collect information from the disaster scene prior to operations, extend situational awareness and offer physical response capabilities.
Digital Ecosystem
Solution
Digital Ecosystem
First Responders will improve their situational awareness receiving information gathered and analyzed by a Portable Common Operational Picture (PCOP), gathering multi-modal data from the field, utilizing an IoT network, and Social Media content to extract meaningful information and to orchestrate an intelligent response to the disaster. The whole system will be facilitated by tools for Resilient Communications Support featuring opportunistic relay services, emergency communication devices, and 5G-enabled communication capabilities. Engineering leads the scientific coordination and technical management of the project. It is responsible of the FASTER System Architecture, component specifications and the development of innovative tools for building the situational awareness.
The project has received co-funding from H2020 - DRS02-2018 the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme - Contract No. 833507
Results
Guarantee first responders safety as well as enhance their operational capacity
Enhance first responders capabilities in terms of situational awareness and communication
Technologies
AR MR VR (XR)
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