Brian Fitzgibbons

Yeah, so this technology began as a pretty high-end defense technology.

And then they found with it a search and rescue application quite some time ago.

And then they began to use it in search and rescue scenarios, missing hikers, skiers, things like that, that they believed had devices.

So this was originally a cyber security tech used in the defense industry to find and locate any surreptitious devices that were emitting radio frequencies in or near.

Such as what?

This would be foreign national governments trying to listen in or capture information in or around Department of Defense or intelligence facilities.

And this tech would sniff that out.

Yeah, so there could be any number of things that these devices that are not allowed to be there could be doing.

And that technology, they found a greater application or new application for it in the search and rescue space that they could apply that same methodology in the same use case to go out and find devices associated with missing persons.

And that's where you've seen this tech implemented kind of in the mainstream is in search and rescue applications.

You know, you have the missing hiker, missing skier, missing persons that have devices on them.

This is not the first time that this has been used.

I think what's novel here is, you know, what I had spoken about that cybersecurity expert Dave Kennedy has found is the ability to amplify that to increase the range.

That's the breakthrough here with Nancy's case.

So this could be anything like an AirTag, Bluetooth headphones, any type of hearing aid, pacemaker, a cell phone certainly, if the battery life were still on.

It's any type of device on the periphery that's connecting with a computer, with a medical device, anything like that.

Yeah, and they can amplify the search, right?

There are only so many helicopters available.

You obviously have fuel costs and things like that, maintenance that has to happen.

So putting it up on drones is going to magnify the number of beacons on that network looking for Nancy's pacemaker.