Team Awareness Enhanced with Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality
Integrated and cost-efficient situational awareness system for first responders from different sectors with heterogeneous and hardly interoperable sensor units including drone mounted, wearable, and external sensor systems
The TeamAware Project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, aims to develop an integrated and cost-efficient situational awareness system for first responders from different sectors with heterogeneous and hardly interoperable sensor units including drone mounted, wearable, and external sensor systems.
First responders are the groups of people, services and organizations with specialized skills and qualifications whose duty it is to arrive to the emergency zone first, search, save and rescue operations, and perform crisis management in natural or human-made disasters. Although first responders provide secure and safe societies by protecting the communities, responding to the disasters, and rescuing lives, they often use inefficient, weak and obsolete technologies in the operations. With respect to the current situation, the operational capabilities of the first responders can be dramatically boosted by the advances in technology and engineering fields such as smart sensor systems, wearables, data processing, data fusion, data analytics, communication infrastructure, and artificial intelligence tools.
In this respect, TeamAware will enhance crisis management, flexibility and reaction capability of first responders from different sectors through real time, fused, refined, and manageable information by using highly standardized augmented reality and mobile human machine interfaces.
The consortium is composed of 24 private and public organizations from 13 different countries, with HAVELSAN (Turkey) as the technical coordinator and SIMAVI (Romania) as the administrative coordinator. first responder service providers and managers, experts in digital development of emergency management solutions and experts in IoT (Sensor) deployment and evaluation contribute to the development of the project.
The Eucentre Foundation is leading the Work Package WP4 devoted to the development of the Infrastructure Monitoring System for the automated detection of structural damage from visual data from drone surveillance in the critical operations area.
