Lifeseeker Mini Search and Rescue Drone

by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby

The Association for Uncrewed Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) has named CENTUM Research & Technology as a 1st place winner in its XCELLENCE Awards under the Technology “Enabling Components & Peripherals” category. CENTUM Research & Technology was chosen among a pool of applicants with significant accomplishments in the uncrewed systems technology field, with winners receiving public congratulations at the Technology Innovation XCELLENCE awards ceremony on April 27th as part of AUVSI’s XPONENTIAL trade show and conference.

CENTUM creates airborne mission systems like the Lifeseeker Mini, an airborne system for Search and Rescue on UAVs that is able to locate missing people via their cell phones, even without network coverage, leading SAR teams to the missing person’s exact location.

“During AUVSI’s 50th anniversary year, we are…