Expected to potentially enhance rescue operations, iSAR uses advanced radio wave analysis and AI to locate missing persons in regions with poor mobile communication, such as national parks, deserts and remote areas, for instance.

Source: Solvit System

A significant challenge of current search operations is their inability to accurately pinpoint locations in these terrains, thus leading to the lower success rates in locating missing people.

iSAR’s approach, however, modifies the search area to one-twenty-fifth of its original size, thereby increasing the chances of a successful rescue. Making this possible is Solvit System’s patented technology that uses a combination of mobile communication coverage analysis and intelligent time series inference.

This approach reportedly highlights the most likely movements of missing persons, thus ensuring that search and rescue teams can act immediately.

By reducing the area where searches occur, the iSAR system promises to help secure those critical “golden hours” for rescuing individuals while also saving on manpower and operational costs.

Solvit System explained, “Our iSAR system employs sophisticated techniques to analyze wireless communication coverage and identify blind spots, using mobility models that allow for rapid response.”

The team added that the automated analysis offered by this framework can narrow down search areas in just 10 minutes, which is a significant improvement over traditional methods that tend to rely on manual radio signal assessments.

Further, the system can also locate anyone with a mobile phone, even in areas where communication is weak.

The company will showcase their product at the CES 2025, which will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from January 7 to January 10, 2025.