Ana Trigo, Emergency Services Product Manager, Telefonica – Drones and fire detection

1. Drones in Emergencies
@TE_GranEmpresa
Ana Trigo Sierra
Telefonica Emergency Solutions, Product Manager

2. Telefónica in
Emergencies

4. Since 1995
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TELEFONICA IN EMERGENCIES
SENECA
The Emergency Management Solution by
Telefonica
TELEFONICA
Provides Infrastructure/Solutions/Services
in 10 of the 19 Spain 112 Centers

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Drones Everywhere

6. Drones in
Emergencies
How can we use them
What is a drone platform

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Drones in Emergency Services
Firefighting
Search &
Rescue
Gather
information
Event
surveillance

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Not only drones
COMPONENTS
▪ Emergencies, Search & Rescue
▪ Environment
▪ Traffic
▪ Industry / Mining
▪ Utility and Power
▪ Telecommunications
Cameras, thermal
sensors, etc…
Mobile
Connectivity
(3G/4G/5G)
To receive/process
the data and
control the drones
To add value for each use
case (computer vision,
machine learning, artificial
intelligence)
Transversal to all B2B customers
1- Drone with
sensors
2- Connectivity 3- Platform 4- Data processing

10. Drone Firefighting
Proof of Concept

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Forest fires burn every year …
THE PROBLEM
WORLD
+ 3M
km2/year
EUROPE
+250.000
hectares/year
SPAIN - 2017
+150.000
hectares
In 2021…
BC Canada
+ 1.500 fires
+ 700.000 ha
Greece
+ 140 fires
+125.000 ha
California
+ 7000 fires
+ 900.000 ha

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How fires impact in …
THE IMPACT
Flora
A Forest needs decades to regenerate
Fauna & Human being
▪ Starvation
▪ Migrations
▪ Intoxications
▪ Diseases
▪ Deaths
20 years 40 years 50 years
Pine tree Decidious
Cork oak
Economy
1.800 million euros
Annual economic losses caused by
forest fires in Spain

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Using Telefonica infraestructure and autonomous drones for early fire
detection
Developed by Telefonica in collaboration with partners Dronitec, Divisek and the Intelligent Systems Lab, from
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, developed an anti-fire solution to fight forest fires using Drones.
Pilot developed by:
In Collaboration with:
PILOT INTRODUCTION

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Use drones and Telefonica Infraestructure
THE IDEA
Telefonica
telecommunication
towers’ network
distribution
Towers
Provide electric supply,
communications, network
and electric shocks defense
Works even in
adverse
conditions
(smoke, fog,
darkness)
Global system
reaches up to 15 km
Extinction drones
deployed to
complement
extinction labors

16. Distributed Sensors (thermal, smoke, wind) deployed in Telefónica
communications towers detect a potential fire
Detection
HOW IT WORKS

17. Distributed Sensors (thermal, smoke, wind) deployed in Telefónica
communications towers detect a potential fire
An alarm is sent to the control center and the drone
Alarm dispatching
HOW IT WORKS

18. Distributed Sensors (thermal, smoke, wind) deployed in Telefónica
communications towers detect a potential fire
The drone-hangar opens automatically, the drone flies
autonomously to the area captures information with cameras
and sensors
An alarm is sent to the control center and the drone
Drone flies autonomously
HOW IT WORKS

19. Distributed Sensors (thermal, smoke, wind) deployed in Telefónica
communications towers detect a potential fire
The drone-hangar opens automatically, the drone flies
autonomously to the area captures information with cameras
and sensors
An alarm is sent to the control center and the drone
The information is sent in real time,
thanks to IoT, to the Control Center
Send information to the Control Center
HOW IT WORKS

20. Distributed Sensors (thermal, smoke, wind) deployed in Telefónica
communications towers detect a potential fire
The drone-hangar opens automatically, the drone flies
autonomously to the area captures information with cameras
and sensors
An alarm is sent to the control center and the drone
The information is sent in real time,
thanks to IoT, to the Control Center
The drone flies autonomously back to the
hangar where it is charged automatically
Drone flies back to the hangar
HOW IT WORKS

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Key findings
The usefulness of Drones has been demonstrated for
this use case
To cover big areas the Telco Towers are a very helpful
infrastructure because:
• Sensors can detect fires 15km around (in ideal conditions of visibility)
• Drone’s autonomy were limited to 30 minutes
In this Pilot, using 3G network for video was good
enough

22. New technologies
in drone solutions
Rescue Proof of Concept

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What has changed in the last three years
TECHNOLOGY CURRENT STATUS
5G
• Low Latency
Edge
Computing
• Intelligence in
the network
AI
• AI Vision
• Pattern
recognition
Orchestration
• Drone swarms

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Drone Ochestration using the Telco Edge Cloud
HOW 5G + EDGE COMPUTING CAN HELP
Objective
• Validate the application of new technologies (5G, Edge Computing,
AI) in an emergency use case
Search & Rescue Proof of Concept
• Part of the Telco Edge Cloud GSM initiative
• Automatic Drone Orchestration
• Deployed in the 4G/5G Telefónica network
• Using the platform “Autonomy as a Service” of our partner
Unmanned Life

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VIDEO

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THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Ana Trigo
Telefonica Emergency Solutions,
Product Manager
@TE_GranEmpresa
atrigo@telefonica.com
linkedin.com/in/ana-trigo-sierra