The Problem
If you enjoy the outdoors, you may have heard reports of fellow adventures getting lost and losing their life. They hope someone can find them before: heat exposure, drowning, bleeding out, or freezing. And it’s not just local, around the world, 500,000 preventable outdoor deaths occur because search and rescue can’t find people fast enough.
Yet most agencies are limited to one drone at a time, which constrains coverage and forces a first responder to “babysit” a screen.
The Solution
Meanwhile, military coordinated autonomy has shown that teams of drones can systematically search large areas within seconds instead of hours. Our goal is to put coordinated capability into the hands of first responders, using off‑the‑shelf aircraft.
First responders can link their drones to our Drone Swarm Control Network to fly as one automated search swarm covering an area over 10x faster than current methods, with FAA compliant autonomy. The network's image-recognition software watches the video feeds, flags likely survivors, and sends the videos of survivors with location straight to medical crew.
Novel innovation: Swarm Intelligence during search
Launch from nearby stations, and get full coverage over any terrain in minutes. The swarm itself is adaptive and “reforming.” Drones can join or leave a mission at any time, from any direction, without breaking the search. That means you can run one coordinated search across a network of resources: pulling compatible drones from fire stations, police, marinas, and ranger stations, and systematically cover 100% of the defined search area within known time bounds.
The more the network is used, the better it gets. As additional stations connect, the local pool of available drones grows, response times shrink, and coverage expands. In the Phoenix metro area alone, that can translate into dramatically better odds for people in heat-related emergencies, drownings, or lost elderly hikers. Swarm intelligence can even beat human teams in physical tasks shown left, courtesy of Dr. Feinerman, Weizmann Institute of Science.
Before (Current Situation)
Before (Current Situation)
Before (Current Situation)
- Rescue in 10-30 minutes.
- 20% success rate for overboard personnel
- High risk to human crews and rescue swimmers.
- ~$118 million per naval minesweeper
- It relies on a single point of failure.
- Surface vessels are limited to a search radius of ~1.1 km.
After (Swarm Technology)
Before (Current Situation)
Before (Current Situation)
- 3 minutes until rescue*
- 100% theoretical success rate in open water*
- Fully autonomous with zero risk to rescue swimmers.
- Estimated cost: $72k per swarm hardware for the same area
- Continues mission despite partial losses.
- Searches are 13x faster with a 0.5 km radius per swarm.