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19/05/2008
LIAISON takes off: European project for managing emergencies
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The Italian National Fire Corp, Telespazio and Thales
Alenia Space, both members of the Space Alliance between
Finmeccanica and Thales, on 20 May will present at Montelibretti
(Rome) the LIAISON project.
This is the most advanced and innovative satellite
system for guiding and monitoring the emergency services
when dealing with fire or other incidents in tunnels and buildings.
The system will make the duties of the fire brigade, police, and civil
protection squads both safer and more efficient.
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The new system, result from the collaboration
with the Italian fire department - within
the European LIAISON (Location-based services
for the enhancement of working environment)
programme - will be presented during the
“Location systems for emergency and rescue
applications” workshop, which will be held
at the Fire Corps Training Centre at Montelibretti
(Rome).
Demonstrations of the LIAISON system
will be held during the day. It will involve
the Italian Fire Corp, Red Cross ARES 118
and the Sussex (UK) police force in two
realistic emergency scenarios (a blaze in
a building and a car accident inside a tunnel).
During the simulation the emergency
teams will have a command and control centre
at their disposal, and will be able to use
2D and 3D dynamic maps of the emergency
scenarios, updated in real time. This system
allows the monitoring of the movements of
people, the management and sharing of information,
orientation even in conditions of zero visibility,
and the possibility to recognize and localize
under all circumstances. It was designed
and tested thanks to collaboration from
the Italian fire service, which identified
operating scenarios and the requirements
for fine-tuning the optimum technological
solutions.
LIAISON is an integrated project co-funded
by the European Commission under the 6th
Framework Programme and has a significant
role for future security applications, compatible
with the GPS satellite system and, in the
near future, with the EGNOS and GALILEO
systems. The system has advanced autonomous
indoor location technologies.
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