Fan-powered CyberQuad can hover over a fire, detect hot spots
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
MELBOURNE, Australia - The Metropolitan Fire Brigade is testing two new remotely controlled aerial cameras, which will help fight large fires.
The CyberQuad is an aerial platform which will hover above fires and detect hot-spots that are invisible to the naked eye.
The real-time vision will then be sent back to a central control centre.
The MFB has bought two of the aircraft, equipped with high-definition cameras and thermal imaging equipment.
Deputy Chief Fire Officer Keith Adamson says the CyberQuad is designed to deliver information from difficult incidents.
"It will enable us to manage chemical emergencies particularly well, because as we can't get too close to some hazardous chemicals," he said.
"This enables us to have a look at what's going on, see what the chemicals are, from a safe distance."
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