Ingenious

Today’s First Responders (FR) are using technology of the past. During their primary mission of saving lives and preserving society’s safety and security, FRs face a multitude of challenges. In both small scale emergencies and large scale disasters, they often deal with life-threatening situations, hazardous environments, uncharted surroundings and limited awareness. Threats and hazards evolve rapidly, crossing municipalities, regions and nations with speed and ease. Armouring public safety services with all the tools that modern technology has to offer is critical. Such tools holistically enhance their protection and augment their operational capacities, assisting them in saving lives as well as ensuring their safe return from the disaster scene.

In order to meet those goals, INGENIOUS will develop, integrate, test, deploy and validate a Next Generation Integrated Toolkit (NGIT) for Collaborative Response, which ensures high level of Protection & Augmented Operational Capacity to respond to the disaster scene. This will comprise a multitude of the tools and services required: 1) for enabling protection of the FRs with respect to their health, safety and security; 2) for enhancing their operational capacities by offering them with means to conduct various response tasks and missions boosted with autonomy, automation, precise positioning, optimal utilisation of available resources and upgraded awareness and sense-making; 3) for allowing shared response across FR teams and disciplines by augmenting their field of view, information sharing and communications between teams and with victims.

Consortium

Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (Coordinator), Greece
Universiteit Twente, Netherlands
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., Germany
DIGINEXT IND, France
FUNDACION TEKNIKER, Spain
EXUS SOFTWARE MONOPROSOPI ETAIRIA PERIORISMENIS EVTHINIS, Greece
SINTEF AS, Norway
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut, Sweden
SATWAYS – PROIONTA KAI YPIRESIES TILEMATIKIS DIKTYAKON KAI TILEPIKINONIAKON EFARMOGON ETAIRIA PERIORISMENIS EFTHINIS EPE, UK
Alpes Lasers SA, Switzerland
Τechnische Universitaet Wien, Austria
Cyprus Research and Innovation Center Ltd, Cyprus
Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Singularlogic Anonymi Etaireia Pliroforiakon Systimaton Kai Efarmogon Pliroforikis, Greece
Korea Institute of Robot & Convergence, Disaster Robotics R&D Center, South Korea
Ertzaintza – Departamento Seguridad – GoBierno Vasco, Spain
Assistance publique – Hôpitaux de Paris / Service d’Aide Médicale Urgente, France
Södertörns brandförsvarsförbund, Sweden
I.S.A.R.Germany Stiftung Gemeinnutzige Ug (Haftungsbeschrankt) Gmbh, Germany
Police Service of Northern Ireland, UK
Hellenic Rescue Team Attica (Response teams, K9, Water SAR, EMS), Greece
Trilateral Research Ltd. (Legal / Ethics, Privacy & Security), Ireland