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SENTINEL A new robot designed to assist firefighters and emergency responders with dangerous and physically demanding tasks during operations has been designed by French engineering company TECDRON. “Sentinel” is a remotely operated platform equipped with electric motors and caterpillar tracks, enabling indoor and outdoor operation for up to six hours. It is suited to fires with restricted visibility and very high temperatures such as underground fires, or those with a risk of explosion, such as at warehouses, industrial sites or refineries. Various accessories such as thermal cameras, motorised water cannon,
LED projectors, smoke extraction fans, electric winch and sensors can be attached to the robot, making it extremely versatile and able to perform several successive tasks during the same mission. The robot can carry up to 800kg of equipment, considerably easing the
firefighter’s progression into hostile environments. A state-of-the-art system interface enables real-time monitoring of the robot’s components, higher security checks and remote pre-diagnosis in case of incident, while a data logger allows the operator to access the logs and operations history of the robot, accelerating diagnosis should it require maintenance or repair.
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