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Scanning4Life
Search & scan an area and locate and ID people that may be in need or who is requesting help in emergency or disaster even when the cellular network are down or is damaged, converting a mobile
phone into an emergency beacon.
The Background: Our patent pending innovation system will maximize the capability of first responder’s research and rescue personnel to search or scan a close proximity area for people that may be in need of help by scanning the most common device that they all carry – the mobile phone. Our system is intended to be utilized in an environment that is potentially much less “friendly” and more demanding than normal, where it has been demonstrated that the cellular network generally fails in most emergency and disaster events. Although there has been a great effort to trace and pin point people calling 911 from cell phone the results accuracy is still within 200 ‐1000 meters, and that’s when the infrastructure and cellular communications are still in working order! During recent emergencies, most cell phone network went down and many cell phone calls and messages could not go through because of the huge volume or damage to communications infrastructure. In most emergency or disaster situations the cellular communication fail or are damaged. Many people still survive the catastrophic disaster like recent earthquakes and Hurricanes events but are trapped and with a need for help without the ability to communicate using their mobile phones to call for rescue. The existing technical means to locate mobile handsets are dependent on cellular towers, GPS or active communication. Again all of these often prove to be ineffective or damaged in an emergency. Furtermore, during an emergency and immediately afterwards, even if the cellular network still works, network congestion is likely to occur in many types of networks.
In the aftermath of the emergency the elements of real‐time and location may be crucial and the mobile phone can become useless when the telecommunications infrastructure is damaged or just can’t provide accurate location. The fact is that mobile phones are the most carried‐on devices. It is estimated that soon there will be more mobile phones than people in the world and most people carry mobile cell phones all the time. The important of power ‐ the battery power!
Battery Life is so important especially in an emergency hence in that situation when a phone can't find a good or any signal, the phone will constantly look for a signal and will quickly drain the battery power doing
so. This is easily understood if you have ever forgotten to turn off your phone on a flight. Common wisdom says the best way to save battery life is to turn off the features you don’t really need. In an emergency – the battery can be a life saver if you can conserve it. It may be absurd that the best tip you can offer to increase the mobile phone staying power in an emergency is to not use it, to be more accurate – not to use it for cellular communication but as an emergency beacon.
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Our unique approach
Our unique approach is to use the mobile phone as a device and not as a phone; in an emergency the user will initiate an application on his mobile phone by pushing an emergency/panic/help button,
turning the mobile phone into an emergency beacon. The application will allow the mobile phone to preserve the battery by entering the mobile phone into beacon like working mode. This increases the battery life and allows more time for the mobile phone to be located by first responders when they arrive at the emergency/disaster area. This critical time is known as a “golden day” – the time in which they can still find people alive. Our innovation will allow Encoding User ID in the handset naming to recognize or identify the user, again without the need for cellular communication. The search and rescue team using a powerful scanner ‐ designed to pick up relatively weak signals coming from a mobile phone handset, either a cellular signal or Bluetooth Wi‐Fi, that will be able to pinpoint the location and allow decoding the user ID to identify a victim or trapped person. Our unique method, as stated previously, turns the mobile phone into a beacon and preserves the mobile phone power over normal operation and allows a victim/trapped person to signal life and a way in which to be located, and thus extends the “golden day” for even days after the emergency or disaster occurred. Thus the mobile phone can be a life saver, even though it is used in a different way than it was designed to and without cellular communication.
Our system can be an add‐on tool for the first responders in any place in the world, or for police or Emergency units that try to locate people in emergency situations where the cellular and or the GPS are not available or not accurate enough and serve as add‐on to E911. Since there are more than 5 billion phones in use all over the world, it seems obvious to include mobile devices and in public search and rescue operation systems. By using our method there is no need for the cellular communication at all just the telephone device with the Bluetooth and or Wi‐Fi and a way to preserve the battery power. The first hours after the disaster or emergency events are particularly critical. Many survivors who survived an incident itself were in a damaged area, but because their exact location was unknown medical treatment could not reach them or they could not be located to be extracted out of the area. Beacon mode broadcasts or operates at constant time interval, the main design to preserve battery power than in normal operation. When activated by the user, the mobile phone in beacon mode will broadcast a signal which can be detect and precisely located using a special scanning4life sensitive scanner carry by police or first responders. The mobile phone/beacons person can be identified instantly via the unique encoding, (thus providing both instantaneous identification & position.) Phone signals can be detect and pin point located by ground search parties or even from the air.
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In Honor of The memory Patent Pending
Summary, why we are unique: The basic purpose of our innovation is to improve the prospects of detect locate and rescuing people needed help in a proximity within the so‐called "Golden day" i.e. the first 24 hours following a traumatic incident when the many survivors or found alive can still be saved, or just pin point and ID people that need help in a close proximity as add‐on to E911. Our method preserves battery power and extends beacon like signaling which can extend the “Golden day” and the window of opportunity to find and save victims. One part of our unique innovation take advantage of the sensitive superior hearing of the rescue dogs by generating the high frequency Dog Whistles that are essential in search and rescue dog training. They are a great tool to get the attention of the search and rescue dogs and detect by the scanning4life scanner to help locate people in emergency and or disaster. We believe that implementation of our system will assist police, first responders and search and rescue teams and most importantly it will provide additional tools that will help to locate and rescue people that may need for help inside buildings, or in an emergency and disaster area. This especially important when it is necessary to pin point and locate the people when the cellular infrastructure fails. It can save lives. Also, the system has as counter terrorism activities applications.
The business: Cost: The system is not prohibitively expensive, Deployment: Our system relies on technology that is already widely available and in use today, it can serve as add‐on to the current equipment use by police, first responders and search and rescue units around the world. Also it can be used by law enforcement and emergency teams for other emergency situations where a user is in distress and needs to be located with pin point accuracy, as an add‐on to e911. The system works in any place where there is need to locate people with pin point accuracy, indoors or outdoors. From a user’s stand point and the need – it is
a must have application – it can save lives.
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This story appeared on Network World at http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/090711-911-emergency-list-250600.html
9/11 Anniversary: What our emergency response systems still can't do
Standard networking features that are missing from first responder, 9-1-1 systems
Ten years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks demonstrated huge gaps in the nation's emergency communications systems, there is still a long list of standard networking capabilities that are unavailable to first responders and 9‐1‐1 operators.
Police officers, firefighters and EMTs from different jurisdictions don't have a standard, interoperable radio network for communicating with each other. Most 9‐1‐1 call centers don't automatically failover to backup locations in the case of physical disaster or excess call volumes. And emergency personnel can't do what every smartphone user can do: send and receive text messages, pictures or video.
"The unfortunate truth is that the capability of our emergency response communications has not kept pace with commercial innovation ‐‐ has not kept pace with what ordinary people do every day with communications devices," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in an August address to first responders.
From the list of 10 emergency communications capabilities that the United States lacks:
7. 9-1-1 call centers can't accurately pinpoint the location of cellphone calls.
Half of all 9‐1‐1 calls come from cellphones, yet many 9‐1‐1 operators can't pinpoint the caller's location as accurately from a cellphone as they can from a landline phone. States need to deploy what's called Enhanced 9‐1‐1 service in order to determine the precise location of cellphone calls.
In July, the FCC strengthened its Enhanced 9‐1‐1 location accuracy rules and required all wireless carriers to meet more stringent metrics. However, these rules apply to outdoor calls only, not in‐building calls.
10. Emergency systems still get overloaded when a disaster strikes.
It's not uncommon for 9‐1‐1 centers to get inundated with calls. On December 27, 2010, New York City's 9‐1‐1 dispatchers received so many calls related to an ongoing blizzard ‐‐ 50,000 in 24 hours ‐‐ that they were overwhelmed, and many callers received an all‐circuits‐busy recording.
