Application of Drone Technology in Evacuation Guidance and Emergency Support/strong>
Authors:-Madhav Venkatachalam
Abstract-Currently, drone technology is not widely applied in the emergency sector due to the high cost of implementation, and limited capabilities in terms of first response, where the drone is mainly used to collect data and provide a live feed. Drones are mostly seen as reconnaissance tools, unable to perform any vital “boots on the ground work”. However a possible scope for drones in certain evacuation and emergency situations exists, which is explored in this paper. To support and analyze the use of such drones, using a novel prototype drone, combining both a bluetooth module and flight controller in separate systems, was built and deployed for a relatively low cost to demonstrate the applications of the technology in real-world scenarios.
