How drones save lives?

In the following lines, you will learn how small drones can help in emergencies and save people and endangered species.

Drones are increasingly expanding their application, including uses in agriculture, construction, conservation of natural resources. In addition to assisting people in their work and environmental protection, drones can be useful in saving lives. In recent years, more and more cases of rescued people with the help of drone technology have been reported, and the number of successful rescue operations is expected to increase. Also, drones are expected to become increasingly used for public safety.

Drones and public safety

Drones are increasingly used to plan rescue operations in emergencies, finding victims, and delivering emergency medications. There are known cases in which, thanks to the use of drones, mountain tourists and climbers have been successfully found, trapped in the mountains. Thermal camera drones are also used to find victims in accidents or those that have for some reason fallen into a ditch. In these and many other rescue operations, it has been proven that unmanned devices have saved vital time to find the victims, and emergency teams have been able to provide first aid and prevent potential injuries or even death.

Protection of emergency teams

It has already been proven that many rescue operations are being carried out around the world with the participation of drones and these machines are useful not only for victims, but also for the rescue teams, such as firefighters, search and rescue teams, and police officers.

When the drone is raised above the scene, it is much easier to locate the incidents and dangers in the area and this information can be signalled to the ground teams. According to many medics, drones contribute to saving lives by preventing more serious injuries to the rescue team or even deaths. Drones can also provide recordings of footage to be used later to analyze the situation.

Improving rescue operations

Another aspect of the drone application is the improvement of search and rescue operations, and thanks to them the rescue teams managed to reach the victims faster and safer. In ordinary operations, the teams are exposed to many life-threatening conditions such as uneven terrain and complicated weather conditions, and also waste time and resources to establish the location of the incident. Drone pilots can spot the victim six times faster than traditional methods.

Use of drones with thermal camera

Drone thermal camera also has significant applications in saving lives, as thermal images help find victims in complicated conditions. Thanks to them, people can be found in the dark and/or when they are hidden from objects or buried in a building. They manage to find people in hard-to-reach areas where there isn’t enough room for helicopters. There are cases in which drones with a thermal camera have successfully found people in dark and dense wooded areas. Innovative technology quickly directs search teams to the lost or wounded in such situations.

In addition to all that, the teams are taking advantage of the transportational functions of drones, and notes, radios, emergency medicines, and food are increasingly being delivered to victims or people blocked in a hard-to-reach place until the teams reach them.

Identification of victims

Unfortunately, there are many cases in which victims cannot be saved. At such times, drones are used to find and identify debris. Remarkable cases have been reported in which the identity of victims in water bodies such as rivers, dams, seas have been established. Sometimes reaching the body is difficult and time consuming until the teams manage to reach it, establish the correct identity, and confirm it to the families and relatives of the deceased.

Rescue of animals

In addition to the fact that drones can save lives, they are also used to save animal species and monitor endangered populations. Various organizations around the world use drones to monitor wildlife and regulate vegetation.

Also, several countries and organizations use drones to prevent and deter illegal poaching. As early as 2012 the World Wildlife Foundation was among several organizations that tested drone technology across Africa and Asia to protect endangered rhinos.

Drones can gather useful information and detect the entry of poachers into protected areas, quickly locating them and directing the organs of the order at the site of the violation.

Drones will save more and more lives

In many cases, it is not even known when drones have helped save people, but even if we judge by those covered by the media, we can see that their use in emergencies is growing. In time, drones are expected to be used so often in rescue operations that this is not even a reason to publish news. With the growing technology of aircraft, they are expected to become more useful and save more and more lives.

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