Project Details
Description
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.
| Status | Finished |
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| Effective start/end date | 1/09/04 → 31/03/08 |
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Research output
- 7 Conference paper
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An Ultra-Wide Band Indoor Personnel Tracking System for Emergency Situations (EUROPCOM)
Harmer, D., Russell, M., Frazer, E., Bauget, T., Ingram, S., Schmidt, N., Kull, B., Yarovoy, A., Nezirovic, A., Xia, L., Dizdarevic, V. & Witrisal, K., 2008, European Microwave Conference. ., p. n-aResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
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Distance Measurement Tests Using the Emergency UWB Radio Positioning and Communications (EUROPCOM) Demonstrator
Dizdarevic, V. & Witrisal, K., 2008, COST 2100 Management Committee Meeting. ., p. tbd-tbdResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
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EUROPCOM: Emergency Ultrawideband RadiO for Positioning and COMmunications
Harmer, D., Russell, M., Frazer, E., Bauget, T., Ingram, S., Schmidt, N., Kull, B., Yarovoy, A., Nezirovic, A., Xia, L., Dizdarevic, V. & Witrisal, K., 2008, IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband. ., p. n-aResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review