Lifeseeker Mini Search and Rescue Drone

CENTUM Analysis and Know-how Wins AUVSI XCELLENCE Award for Lifeseeker Mini

by DRONELIFE Workers Author Ian M. Crosby

The Affiliation for Uncrewed Autos Techniques Worldwide (AUVSI) has named CENTUM Analysis & Know-how as a 1st place winner in its XCELLENCE Awards underneath the Know-how “Enabling Parts & Peripherals” class. CENTUM Analysis & Know-how was chosen amongst a pool of candidates with important accomplishments within the uncrewed techniques expertise subject, with winners receiving public congratulations on the Know-how Innovation XCELLENCE awards ceremony on April twenty seventh as a part of AUVSI’s XPONENTIAL commerce present and convention.

CENTUM creates airborne mission techniques just like the Lifeseeker Mini, an airborne system for Search and Rescue on UAVs that is ready to find lacking folks through their cell telephones, even with out community protection, main SAR groups to the lacking individual’s precise location.

“Throughout AUVSI’s fiftieth anniversary yr, we’re celebrating the accomplishments of the uncrewed techniques trade throughout the final half-century, reflecting on classes discovered, and waiting for our imaginative and prescient for the longer term,” mentioned AUVSI President and CEO Brian Wynne. “The 2022 XCELLENCE award winners symbolize a few of the main improvements and organizations that may assist us attain our shared imaginative and prescient of assured autonomy.”

The AUVSI XCELLENCE Awards acknowledges leaders within the development of autonomy and uncrewed techniques who’ve developed applied sciences with life-saving functions.

“Likeseeker relies on a easy premise: cellphones are essentially the most prolonged beacons on this planet. Cellular communication applied sciences have had an unlimited social influence in recent times and largely everybody owns a cell phone,” mentioned CENTUM CEO Héctor Estévez Pomar. “Lifeseeker takes benefit of this and turns these extensively used gadgets into emergency beacons able to main rescue groups to the precise location.”

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Ian attended Dominican College of California, the place he acquired a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong ardour for writing and storytelling and a eager curiosity in expertise, he’s now contributing to DroneLife as a employees author.

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