Blake Resnick: BRINC Drones

For years, garage tinkerer Blake Resnick has enjoyed working with anything mechanical. From small personal projects to brake cooling systems on McLaren sports cars, he’s constantly looked for opportunities to use his technological and practical know-how to solve problems more efficiently.

Noticing a gap in first-responder communication resources, Resnick has more recently begun developing a series of drones specifically suited to the needs of disaster relief and law-enforcement personnel. Drawing on his experience from an internship at DJI, as well as an awareness of the challenges posed by rapidly unfolding scenarios, his company has focused on creating technologies capable of functioning as a sort of “eyes and ears” for those attempting to save lives with imperfect communication lines.

BRINC drones are built to be activated with an average 70 second 911 response time, allowing them to spearhead situational awareness early on. They’re capable of entering situations and locations unsafe for people, as well as delivering lifesaving medical supplies such as AEDs.

BRINC drones are built to relay various types of information both back and forth; whether creating floor plans of building layouts as they fly through or relaying messages from first responders to disaster victims. With integrated FLIR infrared cameras and floodlights, a BRINC drone is built to see where–and what–people can’t.

Seeing an opportunity, through existing drone technology, to improve the safety of law enforcement officers, Blake Resnick has created a product capable of revolutionizing the way scenario response and rescue efforts are carried out. For decades, EOD teams have used robots to do dangerous human jobs; why not use a robot to do things a human can’t dream of doing? Mapping out a building before entry, identifying injured or trapped civilians, and coming out in a matter of minutes without a scratch is something nearly impossible for a human in some situations; yet BRINC’s products are capable of doing just that. The problem and the technologies have both existed for a while now. But it takes someone like Blake Resnick to put two and two together and come up with a practical, marketable solution.