Life-Saving Technology
Project OMNI studies how drones lift communities. We help deliver medical aid faster while making search and rescue more effective. This page brings together both the data and the real stories that show how these tools save lives.
Impact
Medical drones have been shown to arrive, on average, 7 minutes faster than traditional medical transport services.
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In one real-world example, a medical drone reached its destination in just 6 minutes over a 2-mile distance, while an EMT vehicle took 22 minutes to cover the same route.
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Insight
TRUE STORY: A search and rescue drone equipped with an infrared camera was able to locate a missing 70-year-old man with dementia deep in the woods outside Seattle on a bitterly cold night, after the ground team had already walked past him earlier.
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Source: https://wms.org/magazine/magazine/1326/drone-use-in-sar/default.aspx