Russian Students Develop Drone System for Round-the-Clock Fire Monitoring
The autonomous drones can detect fires and industrial accidents at an early stage and recharge themselves without human intervention.
Students from the Moscow Aviation Institute have developed a drone system designed for 24/7 monitoring of emergency situations at oil storage facilities, main pipelines, industrial sites, and spaceports. The drones can detect fires, gas leaks, liquid spills, and other signs of accidents in their earliest stages using thermal imaging cameras and smoke sensors. Continuous observation without blind spots is achieved through the use of two lightweight multirotor drones and a system of autonomous charging stations: while one drone recharges, the other continues patrolling. The stations draw power from the grid, solar panels, or wind generators. For navigation, the drones rely on both GPS and Russia’s GLONASS satellite system.
At present, the developers have built simplified prototypes of both the drone and the charging station. A full-scale model is expected to be completed within the next year and a half.
