Quantum sensing for rescue and detection
Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond are atom-scale defects that act as exquisitely sensitive magnetometers at room temperature. That property — sensitivity without cryogenics — makes them practical outside the laboratory, including in vehicles, drones and field instruments.
Applied to biomagnetic detection, NV sensing can pick up the faint magnetic signature of a beating heart through rubble — useful in earthquake rescue or collapsed-structure search. Applied to defence, it discriminates buried ferrous material from background noise without ground contact. In both cases the human remains in the loop: the sensor narrows the search; the operator decides.
How JAQL applies this: the NV-Centre preprint (SSRN 6581738) sets out the sensing model and the engineering trade-offs. JAQLNV-7 is the productised platform for defence, drone and rescue use cases.
Research references
Published by Jumpstart AI and Quantum Labs. Co-founders: Dr. Nupur Mukherjee (Chief Science Officer) and Kishan Sathyan (Chief GTM Officer). Research cited as SSRN preprints; JAQL technology is quantum-inspired and runs on classical infrastructure.