Location awareness using combined multimodal sensor infrastructure for emergency service personnel
Miklós Kozlovszky, Daniela Zavec Pavlinić, Gábor Fehér · Extreme Physiology & Medicine · 2015
Location awareness is crucial to effectively work or even survival in a harsh environment. Besides basic functions of protection, the new generation of protective garments has additional functions like monitoring the environment and provides location information about highlighted objects, spots, or personnel. This is a challenging task [ 1 ]; location sensors range from low accuracy sensors with almost global coverage to high accuracy short range solutions. Design requirements such as cost, bulkiness, accuracy, independency, scalability, robustness are key parameters [ 2 ]. We are designing and developing an intelligent Personal Protective System (PPS) integrated with a data acquisition (DAQ) system and we are using enabling technologies to collect location information and a wide range of environment information. In this paper we show how our first prototype of location monitoring is designed and developed.