July 27, 2008
Saving lives with 10-kilo emergency phone network
A ten-kilo GSM mobile phone network developed by European researchers will allow rescue workers to set up communications just hours, or even minutes, after a man-made or natural catastrophe. It will mean more lives saved.
When disaster strikes communications are often one of the first infrastructures to go down. But it is exactly when effective communications are most desperately needed.
That problem may be a thing of the past thanks to achievements in the EU-funded WISECOM project. WISECOM stands for Wireless Infrastructure over Satellite for Emergency Communications, and the team behind the project has developed hardware and software allowing rescue workers to respond faster in the wake of a catastrophe.
The hardware can then link up to satellites to connect with the world mobile and landline networks, says Beriloli. “The system works anywhere there is satellite coverage, which is to say almost everywhere in the world,” says Matteo Beriloli, WISECOM’s coordinator.
[ICT Results via Smart Mobs]
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