‘Eye in the Sky’ device will provide accurate info on people trapped in disaster-hit areas
Students from Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-Madras) have recently built a drone, enabled with Artificial Intelligence keeping the disaster management service in view. The device, ‘Eye in the Sky, which is designed to provide Disaster Management and Humanitarian Aid Services will identify accurate and critical information on people trapped in disaster-hit areas and communicate them to relief task force.
The ‘Eye in the Sky’ Team won the finals of Indian Innovation Growth Programme (IIGP 2.0) University Challenge held at IIT- Bombay recently. They were among ‘Top 18 Innovative Startups’ from all over the nation and will receive Rs 10 lakh-worth equity-less funding. The team has also received ‘Microsoft AI for Earth’ Grant given to only 390 projects globally.
After experimentation and working with data provided by National Disaster Response Force, the team has identified the technologies and software frameworks to be used. Some of the Advanced and Innovative Technologies that team has worked on as part of this project would include deep learning for highly accurate person detection and low altitude person detection, says a press release from IIT-Madras.
