Lifeline

Lifeline is an inflatable emergency shelter deployed by an autonomous search and assist drone, which provides coordinates to emergency organisations when a survivor is located. 

It is designed for scenarios where helicopters cannot operate or during long triaging periods in category one rescues. Lifeline is winched down to survivors, once activated, the shelter self inflates via a CO₂ canister to provide all the essentials for survival.
An integrated soft stretcher allows short carries or easy transfer to technical rescue equipment, ensuring a rapid and efficient response.

This project required quick iterative design ideation, intensive primary/secondary research, prototyping, sketching, 3D modelling, laser cutting, industrial cut/sew practices and 3D printing to test out different concepts before moving to full size prototypes.

I really enjoyed the process of moving between soft goods (a full size “inflatable” tent build) to a 3D printed deployment package and building the system that this would work within.