Detection and location of people in emergency situations through their PMR or GSM/UMTS phones

摘要

The STARRS project focuses on the study, design and development of smart antennas and beam forming algorithms working in harsh propagation environment for the improvement of environmental risk/crisis management, especially in search and rescue (SAR) operations. The STARRS main goals are to detect and locate victims'' positions with a good accuracy as well as to allow alert broadcasting to people in emergency situations. This FP6 European project has been realized with the participation of Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL-B), Thales Communications (F), Joanneum Research (A), Teletel and Vodaphone (Gr), Société française de Radio communications (SFR-F), as well as end users such as French and Cypriote firemen. STARRS started in October 2006 for a 30 months duration and is now finalized.