Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE) overnight.
This was explained to EFE on Tuesday by the head of the air service of the public business entity, Néstor Perales, who stressed that iSar is a “very brave” innovation project co-financed 85% with European funds Feder for Regional Development that has involved an investment of 21 million euros to “improve the global response of Maritime Rescue in three challenges”.
In order to optimize searches at sea, Salvamento will introduce artificial intelligence in the sensors carried by its air and maritime means, so that they can automatically detect shipwrecked people day and night, something pioneering in the world, he has assured .
These intelligent sensors will also be used to detect pollution spots on the sea surface, control the emissions of ships that are in navigation and also harmful and dangerous atmospheres before undertaking a rescue, which will promote more safety for the professionals who carry them out.
The iSar project will also make it possible to work with new platforms, such as unmanned aircraft, such as the 200-kilo helicopter that will be based in the south of Gran Canaria and will be able to board the new Maritime Rescue tugboat, currently under construction.
In addition, this initiative will provide “a great competitive advantage” to this public business entity, created in 1992 and which has a staff of 1,400 professionals who have contributed to rescuing 682,000 people, since it will allow the creation of a real-time communications network that will work offshore.
Currently, the Rescue media, when they go out to an emergency, find themselves “as if isolated” because their sensors collect information but it is not transmitted in real time, until the media arrive at their bases, that information cannot be recovered and that will change to from satellite communications and new command and control platforms, so that whatever these sensors detect quickly reaches the coordination centers and crisis cabinets.
The iSar project will be launched in the Canary Islands, where next week it is expected to start testing drone cameras, boats, satellite communications and the command and control consoles that have been developed. EFE
June 13, 2023
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Salvamento will be able to detect castaways at night with its new intelligent rescue system
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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE) overnight.This was explained to EFE on Tuesday by the head of the air service of the public business entity, Néstor Perales, who stressed that iSar is a “very brave” innovation project co-financed 85% with European funds Feder for Regional Development that has involved an investment of 21 million euros... Read More