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Home | Webpages | Top Story | Fort Bend County HS&EM participates in Technology Exercise

Fort Bend County HS&EM participates in Technology Exercise

March 29, 2019

This week Fort Bend County participated in the Texas A&M Winter Institute exercise, with many public and private partners  testing technology in a series of hyper-realistic disaster scenarios at Disaster City and other locations around College Station, Texas.Emergency responders, search and rescue experts, and emergency management officials pose for a photo demonstrating innovative search-and-rescue technology which automatically identifies faces during SAR missions.
Fort Bend County provided expertise, simulating the Emergency Operations Center in a widespread earthquake on the Texas coast. Assets deployed to gain situational awareness and perform tactical operations ranged from human search and rescue (SAR) professionals and dogs to ground, marine, and aerial robots.An experimental technology stack with edge computing, FirstNet LTE, and wireless access points, designed to recognize faces of victims during search and rescue missions.
A member of our team participated in a panel discussion titled “Information sharing in large disasters, what is the promised land and how do we get there.” Panelists included representatives from the Texas Division of Emergency Management and the Texas Parks and Wildlife.


We’re excited at the opportunity to learn from our public and private sector partners, and to interface directly with graduate students on emerging technologies that can help us reduce the impact of disasters on our communities in Fort Bend County.

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