[IEE EC3 News] EC3 Lecture reminder - "Tracking fire fighters using Ultra Wide Band (UWB)", Thursday 23 April 2009

[Bill Pechey]

Dear Colleague,

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I have appended the details of our next lecture and hope to see you there.

Details of our other lectures may be found at:

http://www2.theiet.org/OnComms/Branches/UK/England/SEastE/EC3/lectures/

I have attached a PDF file containing a poster about the lecture which
you may find useful.

Best wishes,

Bill Pechey
IET Thames Valley Specialised Section

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Thames Valley Specialised Section - Electronics, Control, Computing &
Communications

Tracking fire fighters using Ultra Wide Band (UWB)

Gabriele Donà and Graeme Burden  

Thales Research & Technology (UK) Ltd 

Thursday 23rd  April 2009 at 19:30

Gordon Lecture Theatre, ‘Engineering’ Building, University of Reading

Light refreshments available from 19:00-19:30 

In many emergency situations, particularly within buildings and other
challenging environments such as forest fires, safety and
co-ordination of operations is hampered by lack of knowledge of the
exact location of the emergency personnel. Whilst the emergency
services already make use of satellite positioning, once personnel
enter more challenging environments, this location service is
unavailable.

This lecture will introduce the technology developed to fill this
capability gap, by combining Ultra Wide Band (UWB) signals with
satellite positioning to determine the location of fire fighters in
forest areas.

If you want to know more, come along. All are welcome and no ticket is
required. Simply turn up on the night. For more details please contact
Dr Richard Mitchell at rjmitchell at theiet.org, or 0118 378 6790

Directions: Enter the University from the Pepper Lane entrance. At the
roundabout turn right and enter car park 12 on the left when the road
starts to bend. The Gordon Theatre is in the adjacent building
(linking buildings 25 and 38). Please see maps at
http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/find/about-findmap.asp
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