Dominican Republic uses AI technology in search for missing tourist

Punta Cana — The National System for Emergency Attention and Security 911 announced that it is using an advanced artificial intelligence tool in the search for Indian tourist Sudiska Konanki, who disappeared from a hotel in Punta Cana.

This technology, developed by Dominican technicians with the support of the U.S. government, is being implemented to optimize location efforts.

According to the deputy director of 911, pilot Colonel Harold Jimenez, the tool, applied by drones, was explicitly designed to detect objects in the sea.

In addition, it allows automated flight patterns based on strategic coordinates, considering sea currents, improving the search efficiency in coordination with the Dominican Navy.

Jiménez detailed that the search zones are divided into quadrants, assigning drones to carry out search boxes autonomously.

The pilots monitor the images captured in real time. Then, the videos are processed in the command centers with powerful GPU units, where the information is analyzed in search of clues about the young woman’s disappearance.

Since the missing persons alert was activated, 911 has worked closely with other agencies, providing technological support to maximize the operation’s effectiveness. To date, an area of 17 linear kilometers has been covered, and more than 35 hours of flights have been conducted.

The young woman was last seen in the early morning of March 6, walking along the beach of the Riu Republica hotel with Joshua Steven Ribe.