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Providing Lifesaving, Cost-Saving Information
in Real Time through Rapidly Deployable Mobile Sensor Robots
for Disaster and Emergency Response.
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Share the news in our April 2023 newsletter.
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NIST-supported testing of public safety communications
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Squishy Robotics COO Deniz Dogruer and Lead Mechatronics Engineer Douglas Hutchings are heading to fire stations in Bradenton and Sarasota, Florida later this month as part of the Demonstration Project with Partnering Public Safety Agencies titled “Sensing and Communications for Improved First Responder Situational Awareness” funded by a NIST PSCR grant award. The Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a federal laboratory that focuses on evaluation of and improvements for public safety communications technologies. NIST is a non-regulatory agency under the U.S. Department of Commerce that develops standards that apply to various industries.
“Improving product communications for our sensor robots as well as conducting user experience testing will result in important product improvements,” Dogruer said. “First responders are the experts in their unique needs, and we always appreciate the opportunity to learn directly from them. Our best product enhancements and recommendations have always come directly from the end users.”
Dogruer explained that since the beginning of the year Squishy Robotics engineers have been working internally as well as with pilot partner San Jose Fire Department (SJFD) firefighters and HazMat personnel to test and improve radio communications and reception; work has focused on experimenting with a variety of antennae and transmitters. One communications and signal interference challenge conducted in San Jose concealed sensor robots within an SJFD rubble pile used for search and rescue training. Collected data as well as mitigation procedures testing will help Squishy Robotics to improve response effectiveness.
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“Our goal is to make data transmissions more reliable in emergency situations where diverse mechanical, electronic, and wireless technologies are in use and where the range of electromagnetic frequencies may be crowded. Avoiding or quickly remedying radio interference from surrounding equipment will help our first responder customers get actionable data from our platform faster, enabling them to make informed decisions for safety and response.”
The upcoming trip to Florida will focus of improving the data presentation and user interface (UI) of the Squishy Robotics software and documentation guides. Long-time pilot partner Southern Manatee Fire & Rescue (SMFR) personnel will participate in first responder-machine testing aimed at learning what UI streaming and presentation improvements and additions will help first responders make more accurate, data-driven decisions.
This summer, further testing will be performed in collaboration with Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) and its team of emergency response and homeland security experts. The TEEX Brayton Fire Training Field and its adjacent Disaster City, a 52-acre training facility, will host testing in a real-world environment with a variety of authentic emergency response vehicles and equipment.
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RMUS Canada is new reseller
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Squishy Robotics is pleased to announce that the company has signed a value-added reseller (VAR) agreement with RMUS Canada, extending the availability of tensegrity 4-GasPLUS sensor robot sales and support to the Canadian market. RMUS Canada is the fifth reseller to join the Squishy Robotics' network of value-added resellers.
Rocky Mountain Unmanned Solutions (RMUS) is a leading provider of unmanned solutions focused on software and training for industrial robotics. RMUS, which was founded in 2014 in Salt Lake City, Utah, has been a Squishy Robotics VAR since April 2022. RMUS expanded into Canada in 2019.
“We are fortunate to be working with RMUS Canada to expand the availability of our technologies to first responders in Canada,” said Squishy Robotics COO Deniz Dogruer, adding that the RMUS Canada sales team will be taking our robots to several trade shows and conferences this spring.
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Squishy Robotics in the news
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UC Berkeley College of Engineering's Disaster Lab supports the development of innovations that aim to prevent, mitigate, and foster faster recovery from climate-change related disasters in California and beyond. Disaster Lab is currently focusing on wildfires, earthquakes, and ocean impacts. A recent posting described how Squishy Robotics engineers and technologies participated in controlled burn operations in the San Francisco Bay Area:
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