Smart Rescue Defikopter
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A Wiesbaden feasibility study with Third Element Aviation testing drone-delivered defibrillators: an automated hangar, UAV and AED system meant to reach outlying and hard-to-reach areas early. Test flights delivered an AED successfully. The city lists the project among the completed measures of its feasibility phase, while Hesse's best-practice database records it as being in the usage phase.
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Evidence Passport · public beta 6 addressable claims, 3 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The passport is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.
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A Wiesbaden feasibility study
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with Third Element Aviation
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testing drone-delivered defibrillators
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an automated hangar, UAV and AED system
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meant to reach outlying and hard-to-reach areas early
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Test flights delivered an AED successfully
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Governance facts carried by the record
- Operator
- Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden (Smart City Wiesbaden), with Third Element Aviation as project partner
- Actor types
- private
- Funding model
- Not recorded
- Funding description
- Not recorded
- Cost
- Not recorded
- Ownership
- Not recorded
- Decision rights
- Not recorded
- Exit conditions
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3 source dossiers
Smart City Wiesbaden (authority)
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src-ff00cbd88075d716- Publisher
- Name not classified · smart-city-findet-stadt.de
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- web-page · language not classified
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- Source last checked
- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-07-15
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-22
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- No local capture recorded
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- No archived copy linked
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Official project page of Wiesbaden's smart-city initiative (German).
Third Element Aviation (project partner)
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- Name not classified · 3rd-element.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-07-15
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- 2026-08-22
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- No archived copy linked
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- No captured content hash
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Technology partner's project page describing the feasibility study, the hangar/UAV/AED system and successful test drops.
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Smarte Region Hessen – Best Practice (reference)
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- Name not classified · smarte-region-hessen.de
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- web-page · language not classified
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-07-15
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-22
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- No local capture recorded
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- No archived copy linked
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- No captured content hash
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- Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
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State of Hesse best-practice database landing page (German).
Known limits of this passport
- Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
- Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
- A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
- The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.
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| Smart Rescue DefikopterWiesbaden, 🇩🇪 | 2024 | Planning | Ongoing | Official | Private company | not public | A feasibility study that works. Test flights delivered a defibrillator successfully, and no permanent service is deployed. |
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📎 Cite this project
1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart Rescue Defikopter” — Wiesbaden, Germany. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/wiesbaden-defikopter/ (last verified 2026-07-15). Data: CC BY 4.0.
The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.