🇭🇰HKSOS📱—
ELEVATING🗺️
#LifeSaving
The 🇭🇰
#HKPF-developed ‘HK🆘 Smart
#SearchAndRescue Ecosystem’ shone at the 2025
#BRICS Inventions Competition—garnering:
🌟Special BRICS Prize
🏅Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury
for its integration of📍patented
#PrecisionPositioning technology with 🤖
#ArtificialIntelligence (
#AI) analysis that can help rescue personnel plan out lifesaving missions rapidly—significantly enhancing efficiency of search & rescue (
#SAR) missions to better safeguard 🇭🇰citizens & 🗺️tourists engaging in outdoor activities.
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Organised by the International Federation of Inventors’ Associations (
@IFIAofficial)—the BRICS Inventions Competition:
🌏 celebrates innovative technological projects from around the world
🌏 promotes transboundary technological exchange to stimulate innovation & invention
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Held in MAY-JUL, the 2025 BRICS Inventions Competition attracted entries from a wide range of countries & regions—including the📍Chinese Mainland, the📍Middle East &📍Western regions.
Being the sole award-winning representative from📍Hong Kong this year—the 🇭🇰HKPF made a remarkable debut at the Competition, with its ‘HK🆘 Smart Search & Rescue Ecosystem’ standing out from numerous exceptional submissions.
⭐️The accolade:
🦾 recognises the 🇭🇰HKPF’s strong commitment to technological innovation
🦾 highlights the 🇭🇰HKPF’s significant contributions to enhancing search & rescue missions worldwide
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Other 🗺️award-winning projects at the 2025 BRICS Inventions Competition encompass specialty technologies such as:
🏥 medical microneedle catheters
⚡️ protection for transmission lines
🔋 safety of lithium battery systems
(To learn more about the BRICS Inventions Competition—please visit👇
brics-inventions.org/)
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The 🇭🇰HKPF-developed ‘HK🆘 Smart Search & Rescue Ecosystem’ harnesses:
● an 🤖AI-assisted accident detection system
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● a patented technology called ‘🛜Signal Radar’ which enables long-distance detection (even in the absence of 📶cellular coverage)
—to:
🫶 guard your journeys all the way
🧭 offer routes for your outdoor activities
📲 track your adventures 🛶🌊 | 🥾⛰️ | 🪂⛅️
🌦️ update you on the evolving weather conditions
📍 orient you towards
#EmergencyRelief facilities
🔛 connect you with our 999 Call Centre upon a tap on a button
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Since its launch in JAN 2024, the ‘HK🆘 Smart Search & Rescue Ecosystem’ has:
🙌 safeguarded 6️⃣6️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ journeys
🙌 helped bring 2️⃣6️⃣1️⃣ individuals to safety in 1️⃣0️⃣5️⃣ SAR missions
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The ‘HK🆘 Smart Search & Rescue Ecosystem’ has earned 1️⃣7️⃣ 🗺️international awards⭐️ since its advent—which is testament to:
🇭🇰’s inventiveness that is instrumental in
#SmartCity development
🇭🇰’s dedication to advancing people-oriented scientific research
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✨Please utilise the ‘HK🆘 Smart Search & Rescue Ecosystem’ via the ‘HK🆘
#EmergencyRescue mobile app📱’👇
📱DOWNLOAD & ACTIVATE TO SAVE LIVES🆘 | A LIFELINE WHEN YOU’RE IN DISTRESS:
police.gov.hk/isw/hksos/
📢The ‘HK🆘’ app is also available on our one-stop ‘HK Police👮♂️👮♀️📱app’:
hkp-app.police.gov.hk/en/ind…
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💙
#CommunityPolicing
🆘
#SavingLives IN THE NICK OF TIME
🦾
#DigitalPolicing
💡
#SmartPolicing
🇭🇰
#HongKongPoliceForce
🆕DOWNLOAD to SAVE LIVES🆘
#HKPF’s HKSOS app
coming to🥾
#hikers’ rescue:
🫶🏼guards your hike all the way
📱connects you with☎️999—just 1 tap away
🗺️harnesses maps/routes/
#geolocation tech
⛰️helps
#SearchAndRescue you in areas with no mobile coverage—when used with Signal Radar