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Univ. of Oxford: Pedro Gusmao demos navigation system designed to help locate firefighters

Univ. of Oxford: Pedro Gusmao demos navigation system designed to help locate firefighters

Pedro Gusmao, a researcher at the University of Oxford in England, explains how his team is developing a algorithm that can leverage dead-reckoning technology and inertial sensors to estimate the location of a firefighter or other first responder, even when network infrastructure is not available.
  • Written by Donny Jackson
  • 18th June 2018

Pedro Gusmao, a researcher at the University of Oxford in England, explains how his team is developing a algorithm that can leverage dead-reckoning technology and inertial sensors to estimate the location of a firefighter or other first responder, even when network infrastructure is not available.

Gusmao spoke with IWCE's Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson during the recent PSCR Broadband Stakeholder Meeting in San Diego.

 

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