The drone displayed at the Ooredoo booth during the QITCOM Conference and Exhibition at QNCC yesterday. Pic: Baher Amin/ The Peninsula
A pioneering life saving technology will soon be available on Qatari coasts to save potential drowning victims. Drones will soon be deployed on Qatari coasts to save people from drowning, thanks to the new ‘Ooredoo Rescue’ concept.
The new drone technology is one of the attractions at Ooredoo’s booth at the QITCOM 2017 which concludes today.
The new technology likely to be launched early next year will see solar-powered buoys set up on Qatari coasts.
“The buoys will be equipped with cameras and sensors to detect people in the water within their range, monitor the situation in real time and send a signal to the coastguard control centre to deploy the drone which will then bring the inflatable life raft to save a drowning person,” Amr Abdelhady, CEO of N-GON, told local media yesterday.
N-GON, a Qatari startup which are providers of UAV solutions, has partnered with Ooredoo to provide this next generation life saving technology. The new solution will provide the life raft in the fastest time possible, to allow the person to hold on to the floatation device until human aid can reach them.
Ooredoo will provide the 4G Supernet network which will operate the drone as well as Wifi to the areas where the buoys will be located, said Abdelhady, adding it will likely be launched early next year after finalising agreement with the Ministry of Interior for the manufacture, deployment and maintenance of the technology.
“This new concept was recently showcased at the Mobile World Congress and we have received many inquiries from other countries in the Gulf, Turkey, Bulgaria,” said Abdelhady.
Ooredoo Rescue is one of the advanced solutions being showcased at the Ooredoo booth at QITCOM 2017. A preview of Qatar’s first-ever 5G technology, a live interactive Security Operations Centre (SOC), Smart Stadium concepts, the latest Health and Connected Home technologies are also featured at the booth.
