Meet the Successful Grant Recipients of Open Programme One

Read our interview with Air Rescue Channel Islands

Drone Emergency Services

Air Rescue Channel Islands Limited

The Project

This project looks to incorporate a volunteer-led drone team into each of the emergency services for activities including searching for missing persons, assessing emergency situations, and providing video footage.

The Impact

Recent incident data sadly indicates the importance of such a project and the potential for high impact across the following emergency services:

Police: Drones can help search for missing and vulnerable persons, the number one consumer of frontline resources. High-res, 3D digital twins of crash scenes can accelerate the re-opening of sites post-incident from hours – sometimes even up to 2 days – to mere minutes, by recording scenes for future investigation.

Coastguard: Drones with speakers can warn people attempting to return to shore on a rapidly rising tide to remain on dry land and await rescue. They can also use infra-red to search coasts and shorelines.

Jersey Fire: Drones can map scenes to help cliff rescues, as well as monitoring areas post-furze-fires to prevent re-ignition.

Additionally, as part of the project’s ongoing training schedule, trainees will work on a project mapping and monitoring the growth of seagrass – which captures carbon up to 35x faster than tropical rainforests – around the coasts of the Channel Islands.

The Grant

The grant amount for this project is £74,734.

Read our interview with William Church Consulting

Jersey’s Journey to Net Zero Carbon Project

William Church Consulting

The Project

This project looks to create a ‘living map’ of Jersey to demonstrate the island’s current carbon storing and future sequestration capabilities. A combination of digital satellite remote sensing and high-resolution aerial imagery will be used, with project data, analysis, and reports all to be stored by building an online, interactive dashboard.

The Impact

All stakeholders will be encouraged to access and use the dashboard, from the private to public to not-for-profit sectors.

Tangible data will be shared with Jersey’s residents, to bring them on the journey to collectively reduce carbon footprint, whilst also providing a holistic view that will enable more targeted future initiatives.

Long term, it’s hoped the project will support the health and wellbeing of islanders as well as the supply chain, by sharing insights that make it easier for the agricultural industry to develop sustainable food production.

The Grant

The grant amount for this project is £72,480.

Read our interview with Andium Homes

Realtime Sensor IOT Project

Andium Homes, supported by IoT CI

The Project

This project will conduct a proof of concept to evaluate the feasibility of using sensors to collect data from its properties in order to improve resident health and safety, reduce maintenance costs, and help clients reduce carbon footprint.

Multiple sensors will be installed into each home for air quality, water quality, temperature and humidity. The project is also looking to put sensors across the drainage system of a development to pre-empt the risk of flood.

The Impact

With Andium Homes housing around 10% of the island’s population, a post-POC rollout would help a significant number of individuals reduce their carbon footprint and energy bills, and generally improve their own – and the wider – environment.

Sensors in communal areas will enable real-time monitoring of other aspects including flood risk.

The Grant

The grant amount for this project is £74,900.