EAGER: Aerial Communication Infrastructure for Smart Emergency Response

ABSTRACT

This project exploits an early concept of a flexible, low-cost, and drone-carried broadband long-distance communication infrastructure and investigates its capability for immediate smart-city application in emergency response. This effort is to support the Smart Emergency Response System (SERS) cluster to participate in the Global City Teams Challenge. This project will have an immediate impact in firefighting and other smart-city emergency response applications by quickly deploying a broadband communication infrastructure, thus improving the efficiency of first responders and saving lives. This communication infrastructure expands the capability of individual drones and enables broad new multi-drone applications for smart cities and has the potential to create new businesses and job markets.

Explanation of demonstration: We will demonstrate our latest prototype of the broad-band long-distance communication system. The system maintains robust communication in GPS denied environment. We will also demonstrate the disaster drills that we participated in testing the prototype system.