School of Participant(s)

Diocesan Boys' School

Innovative Idea

Our solution involves a network of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that patrol around country parks to manage country parks and detect short-term and long-term anomalies, freeing up manpower for higher-level tasks and enabling quicker emergency response. Our drones are equipped with a variety of sensors to collect a range of information, such as emergencies (i.e. wildfires, landslides), traces of illegal activities (structures, off-road racing), trash management (usage of facilities,  illegal trash disposal), and live updates on hiking hotspots. The network is complemented by an ML data processing system, analyzing the changes in the landscape to detect illegal structures, and inputting LiDAR and optical data to identify whether there is litter, and if a road is blocked due to landslip. Data from the UAVs would be dropped off at certain data drop-off locations and at their charging stations.