DTIC-UPF, within the framework of the Fractus-UPF Chair in Technology Transfer and 6G, and the University of California at Irvine (UCI) are working on the creation of a new technological system that will allow, in case of fire, to deploy a fleet of intelligent drones, which will work in a network and in a coordinated manner, to automatically perform fire control and monitoring tasks.

The research project proposes solutions to automate the use of drones in case of fire based on wireless communication technology (wireless) and artificial intelligence (AI). The principal investigators of the project are Àngel Lozano, director of the Wireless & Secure Communications research group of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Fractus-UPF Chair; and Hamid Jafarkhani, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at UCI in California. The research also involves the Catalan Carles Diaz, researcher in electronic engineering and computer science at UCI, among other collaborators. The research is also supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and a grant from the ICREA Academia program.

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