Pratexo edge computing platform-as-a-service accelerates the design, provisioning, and management of safety applications at the disaster site edge for K9 Solutions.

Organization/Client:

• Depart of Homeland Security
• With partner LuxML

Challenges:

• Buildings collapse via earthquakes, tornadoes, bombs
• Difficulty in locating people and potential future dangers
• Dogs and handlers are independent, isolated entities, efforts are not collaborative in real-time

K9 Solution:

• Edge nodes put on each dog, powered by Pratexo, include a low power/weight computer and camera
• System use machine learning for object detection in real-time
• Other sensors (GPS, accelerometers) measure location and position, to reflect the real-time status of the dog
• Mesh network allows communication across the entire system, even in complex environments with limited network communications
• The solution allows for the development of swarm algorithms to orchestrate an autonomous collaboration between the dogs
• Results reported to remote handlers who are able to coordinate overall efforts across multiple dogs

Technologies used:

• Edge computing, EDA, IoT, AI/ML, distributed computing, mesh networking, mobile, OSS, swarm computing