AIRA+ (Advanced Integrated Response & Aid Assistant)

AIRA+ (Advanced Integrated Response & Aid Assistant)

🚨 Overview

AIRA+ is an AI-powered, satellite-enhanced emergency response system designed to revolutionize the way critical medical help is requested, dispatched, and managed. When every second counts, AIRA+ ensures rapid coordination between users, healthcare providers, and emergency vehicle, both manned and unmanned through intelligent automation and satellite connectivity.

🧠 Core Features

1. Smart Emergency Request Initiation
   Users can trigger a distress signal in two intuitive ways:
   1. Traditional voice call to emergency services (e.g. 118)
   2. AI-assisted reporting: Describe the situation using voice notes, text, or photos.
      1. Speech-to-text: Trasncription powered by OpenAI's Whisper.
      2. Image captioning: Situation inferred via BLIP (Bootstrapping Language Image Pretraining)
2. Autonomus Dispatch Algorithm
   AIRA+ intelligently assesses the emergency type and orchestrates the most effective response by:
   1. Analyzing resource availability.
   2. Calculating real-time proximity via satellite geolocalization.
   3. Initiating autonomus dispatch of appropriate assets ambulances, helicopters, or drones equipped with first aid kits, AEDs, and life-savings medications.
3. Satellite-Enhanced Routing
   Our routing engine dynamically optimizes both aerial and ground paths, considering:
   1. Real-time weather conditions.
   2. Terrain morphology and accessability.
   3. Airspace and road traffic data.
4. Hospital Control Panel
   Every healthcare facility is equipped with a powerful admin dashboard that includes:
   1. Real-time asset tracking map (vehicles, drones, etc.)
   2. Emergency history with patient and medical details.
   3. Inventory of operational assets with data on:
      1. Battery/fuel levels
      2. Maintenance logs
      3. Availability status

🛠️Tech Stack

1. Frontend: Typescript + React
2. Mobile Stack: Capacitor for cross-platform compatibility
3. Backend: Python, Firebase (authentication + realtime DB), FastAPI
4. AI/ML Models:
   1. Whisper for speech-to-text
   2. BLIP for image-to-text

🌍 Use of Space Technologies

1. Copernicus CDS for all the weather conditions.
2. Satellite GNSS for accurate user geolocalization and routing.

🎯 Impact

AIRA+ aims to shorten emergency response time, especially in remote, rural, or disasrter-affected areas, where infrastructure is scarce or overwhelmed. With AI-driven triage and satellite-based logistics, we empower emergency responders to act smarted, faster and more efficiently, ultimately saving more lives

Partecipants

• Nicola Ricci Maccarini: BSc student in Computer Science at University of Ferrera. 
  AI/ML Engineer.
• Alessio Ganzarolli: BSc student in Computer Science at University of Ferrara.
  Full-Stack Web Developer.
• Alessio Prato: BSc student in Computer Science at Alma Mater Studiorum Bologna.
  UNIBO Motorsport Team Meamber and Software Engineer.
• Leonardo Pinna: BSc student in Computer Science at Alma Mater Studiorum Bologna.
  YouTube Content Creator and Software Engineer.
• Alessandro Marcellini: BSE studend in Computer Engineer at Alma Mater Studiorum Bologna.
  UNIBO Motorsport Team Member and Backend Developer.