“>Longxi Vision shows us their latest AR products
There is no denying that AR technology is the future of smart mobile devices, and its existence provides users with a new dimension of experience. Although AR technology was slow to grow due to its complexity, with the popularity of cloud computing, the limitations and edges of AR technology expansion were gradually broken.
According to the Modor Intelligence survey, the global AR market has reached $35 million in 2018, including hardware and applications, and is expected to grow by around 150% in 2025. At the same time, the report predicts that shipments of AR equipment will reach 22.8 million units by 2020.
In the near future, this group of energetic young people formed Longan Vision together, and in the office provided by the University Incubator, they began to build smarter rescue aids and provide visual solutions for the government fire department. .
Free the hands of firefighters to improve rescue safety
In the process of fire rescue, team communication, accurate transmission of accident site information and application of fire fighting equipment are decisive for fire rescue and accident investigation. In Canada, firefighters often complain that the functionality and experience of existing firefighting equipment is poor. In the case of low visibility, firefighters still need to hold various auxiliary equipment to observe the surrounding environment. These devices are not only bulky, but also not convenient to operate, and the cost is particularly high. Not only does it bring great difficulties to the rescue, but it also poses a great threat to the safety of firefighters themselves. Therefore, the hands of the liberation of firefighters became the first goal that Jia Mingxi’s team had to solve.
In the emergency of fire rescue, hand-held thermal imaging guns are an indispensable tool, a device that allows them to observe the surrounding area through thick smoke. But in order to use it, the firefighter must stop to shoot the target and then evaluate the information on the screen.
At present, the Longxue team has developed the FVS (Fusion Vision System) visual aid system. The application scenario of this system is a zero-visibility fire scene. For firefighters in heavy protective clothing, the FVS Vision Aid System provides lightweight AR glasses and helmet equipment for easy portability and greatly liberates the hands of firefighters. Rescuers no longer need to carry a huge, bulky thermal imaging gun to travel in the smoke, allowing their attention to focus on the accident processing through the thermal imaging camera on the helmet for image recognition, looking for trapped people in the fire.
Using AR technology, through a series of sensor data and algorithms, the environment of firefighters can be visualized in front of firefighters, providing fast, convenient and clear environmental information, such as indoor maps, fire instructions, oxygen content, etc. Wait. It is also possible to let firefighters see the processed thermal imaging images through a series of CV and AI algorithms combined with the system’s environmental perception to see in the smoke.