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Previously, in a building where a fire broke out, firefighters could only rely on their own intelligence and five senses to search and rescue. Now, artificial intelligence research at Pasadena’s NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California may change this history. It guides emergency personnel through the fire after collecting fire temperature, gas, and other hazard signal data.
The AUDREY system, jointly developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), received a cooperation award from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. It can help understand data through reasoning, abstraction, and synthesis. It is also part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's self-innovation next-generation first-aid personnel program that enhances the awareness of firefighters, police, health care personnel, and other emergency personnel about the surrounding environment. The ability to communicate with one another to ensure their personal safety.
And more exciting is: AUDREY system can track a whole team of firefighters, and can send fire-related information to everyone to help them complete their work.
According to Mark James, chief scientist of the AUDREY system project and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, "When a firefighter moves in an environment, the AUDREY system can alert him through a mobile device or a head-mounted display."
The AUDREY system is designed based on the concept of "Internet of Things" integration, and various devices and sensors can communicate with each other wirelessly. For firefighters, wearable sensors on their clothes can help them get GPS location, heat of the room, possible hazardous chemicals, gas, satellite imagery, and more.
"Once the on-site emergency personnel are equipped with these sensors, the AUDREY system becomes their guardian angel, because all these data received by the sensors can prevent firefighters from entering a hazardous area." Jet Propulsion Laboratory Civil Project Office Manager, AUDREY System Project Manager Edward Chow said.
John Merrill, the program manager of the next-generation emergency personnel and the Department of Science and Technology of the Department of Homeland Security, said that technology is providing new protection to emergency personnel at the scene of the fire.
Merrill said: "Increasing the use of small sensors and IoT devices can have a huge impact on the safety, communication, and situational awareness of emergency personnel. The large amount of raw data collected by sensors is meaningless to emergency personnel. , so it must be processed into usable, actionable information."
Guardian Angel in the CloudThe AUDREY system is a cloud-based software that monitors from above the scene. It is not just the same as other software that can send data to field personnel. In fact, it can learn from the monitoring scene and obtain information while predicting what resources may be needed.
James said that the AUDREY system can identify the specific roles of emergency personnel in the field, thereby providing different roles with potentially life-saving information and avoiding the emergency personnel being overworked.
"The AUDREY system knows the identity of each person who receives data, so it only provides relevant information that suits them," James said.
In June this year, the AUDREY system conducted a virtual demonstration experiment at the Public Security Broadband Stakeholders Conference held by the Ministry of Commerce of San Diego. The official AUDREY system sent data from various sensors to make a safety recommendation and send it to a mobile device. Chow said that we plan to conduct field tests on the AUDREY system at the fire site within a year.
Chow emphasized that artificial intelligence can only function effectively with the help of large amounts of data. The more data it can receive, the more likely it is to suggest useful advice. Â
"Most AI projects are based on 'if so, then that would be' rules," he said. "But if you only got some information? The AUDREY system uses complex logic to make the computer simulate human thinking, which is why the AUDREY system provides more useful information for firefighters than traditional artificial intelligence systems."
The AUDREY system incorporates some of the new technologies developed by NASA and the Department of Defense over the past five years. The project to apply the AUDREY system to the next-generation emergency personnel program has been ongoing for nine months. This project was funded by the Department of Homeland Security and California Institute of Technology manages the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA.
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