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EUROPCOM - Emergency Ultra-Wideband Radio for Positioning and Communications

Period
2004 — 2008
Funding
6th Framework Program of the EC; STREP #004154
Partners
  • Thales Research and Technologies Ltd., UK
  • IMST GmbH, D
  • Technische Universiteit Delft, NL
Research Areas
Contact
Members
    firefighter with ecom

    In emergency situations, particularly within smoke filled, partially or completely collapsed large buildings, communications with rescue personnel can be difficult. Safety & co-ordination of the operations is hampered by a lack of knowledge of the location of emergency staff. The project will investigate & demonstrate the use of UltraWideBand (UWB) radio, to allow the precise location of personnel to be measured & displayed in a control centre & simultaneously improve communications reliability. The feasibility of using UWB to search for survivors in smoke filled rooms or buried beneath rubble & to generate simple maps will also be investigated.