Arwain is a GovTech innovation focused on advancing the safety and wellbeing of firefighters. Arwain provides real-time, shareable 3D data and instant location tracking to enhance situational awareness and decision-making for fire command teams. Their solution aims to improve emergency response and community safety through advanced technology and innovative approaches.

"Our fire commanders often have very little information about where a firefighter is, once they’re deployed beyond the threshold of a building. Our aim is to enable our Incident Commanders to see through buildings and know where their crews are."

Steve McLinden, Mid & West Wales Fire & Rescue Service

AUGMENTED VISIBILITY FOR FIRE COMMAND

During a fire and rescue emergency, incident commanders need as much situational awareness as possible to keep crews and the public safe.

Firefighters already carry a thermal imaging camera to detect heat signatures, which gives them a vague layout of the room they’re in, but there’s no live tracking of their progress once inside a building or structure.

The incident premises may not be known to the service prior to the event, so fire crews often do not know the landscape they’ll face on entering.

The Arwain digital localisation system will be easy and quick to deploy, and work at all locations, no matter the size or complexity of the layout.

55,000+

INCIDENTS

The UK fire and rescue services handle over 55,000 incidents inside buildings and other structures each year. In a live hostile environment, keeping track of each firefighters’ location at all times is a major problem faced by fire crews the world over.

£1.25m

GOVTECH FUNDING

£1.25m GovTech Catalyst Funding to develop a pioneering, lifesaving safety solution, which will reduce operational risk and further enhance the safety and wellbeing of firefighters.

90 Secs

DEPLOYMENT TIME

The Arwain digital localisation solution will be quick and easy for firefighters and command crew to deploy on-site within 90 seconds with minimal set up so as not to disrupt or slow operations.

Contact Jacques to find out how you can face fire crew challenges:

be instantly deployable at unfamiliar locations
operate on a self-contained mobile secure local network
provide real-time data about a firefighter’s horizontal and vertical location, including the room they’re in and the floor
allow seamless sharing across multiple agencies, using local and remote software platforms
present real-time data in 3D using augmented or holographic technology.