SALVEREMO project

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• September 6, 2014
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Salveremo: automatically localize dispersed people in mountain remote areas.

SALVEREMO is an applied research project. It aims to develop a system to localize dispersed people in remote mountain areas automatically. 

In this project, the peculiarity of the proposed solution is the exploitation and integration of unique skills and expertise from different competence fields. Thanks to that, it will dramatically decrease the searching time in the wilderness and remote areas off the beaten tracks, providing rescuers and operators with a decision support system, increasing successful results, and reducing rescue missions costs.

Firstly, the system benefits from the adoption of a scaled-down Base Transceiver Station (BTS) embarked in the payload sensor suite of a small RPAS that can be carried in a backpack of rescuers. Secondly, a Software Defined Radio (SDR) board implementing the BTS protocol stack is integrated into a complex sensor suite made up of open processing boards and camera devices. Thirdly, computer vision (CV) algorithms for real-time pattern detection and image enhancements assist the rescuers during the searching operations. Eventually, an easy-to-use ground station application speeds up the overall mission accomplishment.

Thanks to the sensors and TLC component miniaturization mounted on the UAV and the autonomous action capability in inaccessible areas, the SALVEREMO system increases the rescue operation efficiency.

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Project’s details:

Duration: 2014-2016
Coordinator: BEA SRL
Partners: BEA SRL, aerRobotix, commitWORLD, CSP, Politecnico di Torino
Funded by: EU-Regional Funds, within MESAP, the Piemonte Innovation Pole on mechatronics and advanced production system

Publications

• Allasia, W., Russo, G., Bianchi, L., Licata, E., Duranti, P., Molino, A., Bagarini, E., Sagliocco, S., Scarafia, S., Prinetto, P., Airofarulla, G., Carelli, A., & Penna, R. (2016). SALVEREMO, an automatic system for the search and rescue in the wilderness and mountain areas. Unpublished. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.2490.8400

Related readings:

• https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/EGU2016-6192-1.pdf
• https://www.csp.it/en/?portfolio=salveremo