Drones To Help Find Survivors Through Mobile Phones

Jennifer Hicks, Contributor, Forbes
Mon, 07/28/2014 - 4:08am

A new research project at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL) is working on using drones to help locate survivors of natural disasters through their mobile phones on the ground. The project has just begun, but the early research demonstrates the drone's ability to detect data packets from mobile phones.

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