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The AIOSAT (Autonomous Indoor / Outdoor Safety Tracking System) system will allow the team/brigade commander to track the location, including a confidence margin on the location, answering a necessity of the emergency services.

With the AIOSAT system, the team commander of first responders will handle the information required for the success of the operation and to avoid any fatalities. It consists of two main elements:

Portable system (First Responder): equipped with the AIOSAT advanced positioning system and AIOSAT communication system. The functions of this portable system will be:

  • Continuously transmit the position of the first responders. It allows data communication of the team commander with the firefighters and the Mobile Coordination Centre (MCC) to exchange commands and alerts related to generic mission operations and in particular to prevent rescue workers from entering dangerous locations.
  • Firefighters only receive the different alerts having not any interaction with the system, brigades and MCC will take advantage of the added value information that AIOSAT provides ensuring also the safety of their dependents.
  • Receive required information from the Mobile Coordination Centre (MCC) for positioning augmentation enhancing accuracy and integrity monitoring techniques, such as different Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM) for safety related applications.

Mobile Coordination Centre – MCC: the mobile unit (in a truck for example) will be equipped with the AIOSAT positioning system, AIOSAT communication system and AIOSAT TA system. The functions of this mobile coordination centre will be:

  • Continuously receive the position of the First Responder cluster and track the rescue workers.
  •  Setup a system to retrieve realtime differential GNSS corrections. The proposed alternative is the use of EGNOS, however to increase the availability of the corrections in harsh environments where EGNOS is not available, 
  • Transmit the differential GNSS corrections and integrity over the AIOSAT communication system.
  • Transmit required orders to prevent rescue workers from entering irreversible risky locations (alarms).
  • Interface with existing on-board systems and external networks (via SATCOM) to access relevant information needed for the mission, e.g. outdoor and indoor maps.
  • Overall management and monitoring of the AIOSAT network and devices.
Supported Use Cases

AIOSAT UC1: tracking the team members

The AIOSAT system will allow the team/brigade commander to track the location, including a confidence margin, the status of the battery and the status of the communication systems of the team members equipped with the AIOSAT portable system.

Moreover, the team/brigade commander will receive messages of a person motionless or entering a dangerous pre-programmed zone.

Related CM functions

AIOSAT UC2: Send commands and alerts to field workers

AIOSAT system will allow the team commander to send commands and alerts to the firefighters and the Mobile Coordination Centre (MCC). This can be, in particular, used to prevent rescue workers from entering dangerous locations.

The information of the task asignment for the first responders and the position of the main hazards (seat of the fire, water hazard, blocking path, proximity to a dangerous substance) could be transmitted to the Mobile Coordination Senter in real time by the team/bridage commander

Related CM functions

AIOSAT UC3

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Related CM functions

Addressed hazards
Innovation stage
Readiness
Crisis Cycle Phase
Crisis size
Illustrations
AIOSAT APP main screen
The AIOSAT system will allow the team/brigade commander to continuously track the location of the team members
Tracking in testing
Examples of hazards situated by team/brigade commander
Tracking in testing
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Solution references

AIOSAT

AIOSAT is an on-going research project which received funding from the European GNSS Agency under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and programme under grant agreement No 776425.

We are at the mid term period of the project and collecyting data with the first prorotype of the system and the track and alarm application.

You can follow our progresses on the web page, twitter (@AIOSAT_eu) and LinkedIN

 

External reference
AIOSAT web page
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