CENTUM Research and Technology Wins AUVSI XCELLENCE Award for Lifeseeker Mini
by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby
The Association for Uncrewed Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) has named CENTUM Research & Technology as a 1st place winner in its XCELLENCE Awards under the Technology “Enabling Components & Peripherals” category. CENTUM Research & Technology was chosen among a pool of applicants with significant accomplishments in the uncrewed systems technology field, with winners receiving public congratulations at the Technology Innovation XCELLENCE awards ceremony on April 27th as part of AUVSI’s XPONENTIAL trade show and conference.
CENTUM creates airborne mission systems like the Lifeseeker Mini, an airborne system for Search and Rescue on UAVs that is able to locate missing people via their cell phones, even without network coverage, leading SAR teams to the missing person’s exact location.
“During AUVSI’s 50th anniversary year, we are celebrating the accomplishments of the uncrewed systems industry within the last half-century, reflecting on lessons learned, and looking ahead to our vision for the future,” said AUVSI President and CEO Brian Wynne. “The 2022 XCELLENCE award winners represent some of the leading innovations and organizations that will help us reach our shared vision of assured autonomy.”
The AUVSI XCELLENCE Awards recognizes leaders in the advancement of autonomy and uncrewed systems who have developed technologies with life-saving applications.
“Likeseeker is based on a simple premise: mobile phones are the most extended beacons in the world. Mobile communication technologies have had an enormous social impact in recent years and mostly everyone owns a mobile phone,” said CENTUM CEO Héctor Estévez Pomar. “Lifeseeker takes advantage of this and turns these widely used devices into emergency beacons capable of leading rescue teams to the exact location.”
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Ian attended Dominican University of California, where he received a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong passion for writing and storytelling and a keen interest in technology, he is now contributing to DroneLife as a staff writer.
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