EENA Conference 2017 session

1. EENA & DJI pilot
project
Discussion panel

2. Discussion panel
• Chair
> Dieter Nuessler
Name Organisation
Iratxe Gomez Susaeta EENA
Romeo Durscher DJI
Thomas Sylvest Greater Copenhagen Fire Department
Ólafur Jón Jónsson Reykjavik Search & Rescue
Matthew Kelly Donegal Mountain Rescue Team
Oisin McGrath DroneSAR

3. EENA + DJI pilot project
• May – October 2016
• Partnership with DJI to understand and evaluate
the use of Drones in civil protection/first
responder scenarios in 4 pilot sites
> Objective:
▪ To learn how drone technology can assist FRS, EMS, Police, SAR, coastguards and humanitarian organizations
in different scenarios and environments (urban, rural, mountainous, forest, “over-water”).
▪ DJI provided equipment and training; EENA & DJI gathered use case data.
> Results:
▪ “The use of RPAS by the emergency services”, final White Paper (published November 10th)
▪ A set of best practices and recommendations for how to use Drone technology, and 2 new software solutions
targeted to first responders.

4. The project
• 4 sites selected
> 2 SAR & 2 FRS
> +40 applications
from all over the
World

5. Project team

6. Training in Copenhagen

7. Training in Copenhagen (cont.)

8. Training in Copenhagen (cont.)

9. Hovedstadens Beredskab

10. Donegal Mountain Rescue Team

11. Reykjavik SAR

12. Mid & West Wales FRS

13. Trials

14. Trials (cont.)

15. Recommendations
• Recommendations
> Multi-drone
operations
> Multi-person
operations
> Integration into SOP
> Weather resistance
> Drop capabilities
> Training, training, and more training!!!

16. Recommendations (cont.)
• Recommendations
> ES drone
identification and
safety markers
> Further work on
real-time broadcast
to PSAP
> Further work on
multi-camera
operations
> Training, training, and more training!!!

17. Let’s look back to 21st April 2016…

18. Questions?