Hong Kong’s Fire Services Department will launch three new AI-assisted drone technologies to strengthen fire detection and its response to heightened risks during tomb-sweeping activities ahead of the Chung Yeung Festival on Sunday.
Wong Tak-fai, acting divisional officer for information and communications technology, said on Friday that the technology would improve the speed and accuracy of fire detection to help the department operate more efficiently.
“Artificial intelligence [AI] not only speeds up the processing of drone images but, more importantly, helps our staff continuously analyse large amounts of images from different drones across various locations to identify situations needing priority attention,” Wong said.