In-Building Tracking of Emergency Rescue Personnel

TREX Enterprises Corporationd Engineering, 2008-09

Liaison(s): Laura Angell ’06, Paul Johnson, Vladimir Kolinko, Hope Runyeon ’06
Advisor(s): Ruye Wang
Students(s): Corinne Cho(S), Jordan Ciciliano (F), Hector Cuevas (TL-F), Jin-Soo Jo (S), Sean Kim (S), Andrew Lawrence (TL-S), Kevin Lee (F)

The Trex Enterprises clinic team will develop a proof of concept system that will utilize radio frequency signals to track emergency personnel in various environments. Hardware will be built to measure the ranges between base stations and a personal transceiver by measuring the phase difference between the signal transmitted by the base stations and the signal returned by the transceiver. The personnel’s coordinates will be computed using software that trilaterates the ranges from the transceiver to various base stations.