According to Gulf News, ADCMC is showing an AI drone it wants to be the first responder to emergencies and disasters. ADCMC is Abu Dhabi’s Emergency, Crisis and Disaster Management Centre. Shaikha Khamis Al Azeezi, director of the Business Continuity and Alternative Services Department, spoke at the Military Medicine exhibition at ADNEC in Abu Dhabi. The exhibition is part of the 46th World Congress of Military Medicine, organised by the UAE Ministry of Defence with ADNEC Group.
ADCMC is showing a drone service there, alongside AI tools designed to keep Abu Dhabi running when something goes wrong.
Al Azeezi explained what the drone does in a large fire. It follows the path of the flames and gives response teams the information they need, including safe evacuation routes for people.
Today the goal is for the drone to be the first responder to emergencies, crises and disasters in the Emirates
Shaikha Khamis Al Azeezi, director of the Business Continuity and Alternative Services Department, ADCMC
She also said the drone can show where water is collecting in severe weather. It can also be sent to unexpected incidents in places crews find hard to reach. Carrying cameras and sensors, it makes search and rescue easier.
The coverage doesn’t say how many drones there are, when the service launches, or whether any live incident has involved one. It doesn’t say whether the drone flies autonomously or with a pilot, or whether the service is running yet.
Jaheziya simulates exercises and incidents in Abu Dhabi, assesses roles and responsibilities, and gives feedback to the entities involved. Al Azeezi calls AIN “a fully agentic AI tool”. ADCMC employees initially built it, and its agents cover business continuity, risk, operations, and exercises. A business continuity standard for the health sector, developed with the Department of Health, sets out each critical process in detail. An agentic AI platform audits hospitals and assets against it.
The AI push reaches well beyond emergency services. Elsewhere in government, Abu Dhabi and OpenAI launched Machine-Readable Government on 9 November, a permit-checking system where officials keep the final say on high-stakes decisions. In October, Abu Dhabi set up TAMM Global to license its AI government platform to other countries.
She also said other countries can visit ADCMC and see the best practice globally. Al Azeezi says the next five years will bring “different projects that automate the emergency framework, supported by AI tools”.
