Squadron Six Aerospace engaged with the IMaR Technology Gateway with financial assistance from the Enterprise Ireland Innovation Voucher programme to carry out a strategic technology selection project.
After Squadron Six Aerospace completed market research they saw a gap in the market for Search And Rescue (SAR) tasks assisted by drone swarms. In their primary research to test the hypothesis “Will a swarm of drones out preform a single drone in SAR tasks?” Casualty detection times of a single drone compared to a swarm of drones gave a 64% time saving in favour of a swarm of drones. Hypothesis testing was carried out in a synthetic environment over an area of 55 acres of agricultural land.
“As MD of Squadron Six Aerospace and as a volunteer in the Civil Defence I have been on many river-side searches and I can assure you that every minute saved in an emergency situation can mean the difference between life and death!” – Kevin Doyle, MD, Squadron Six Aerospace Limited
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