Hackathon Netwerk Brandweer - powered by VIAS en EYnovation™

Imagine you are a firefighter in the year 2030, sent off to extinguish a hazardous house fire. While responding, you are watching the video feed from an autonomous drone that was dispatched to the site of the fire. As you and the other responders arrive, you start to deploy several autonomous, small robots that enter the building and begin a self-directed search using a learning algorithm. Once victims are found, they relay the location to the heads-up display built into the face piece of your air mask. You enter the structure, now extinguished by the robots, using your integrated exoskeleton to make a quick rescue of the victim.

If this is a vision that you want to help make a reality, then we have the opportunity for your startup or scale-up to play a key role in the hackathon for the Fire Department of the future, organized by VIAS, Netwerk Brandweer and EY.