Three-way pinpointing of emergency call from RFID-reader-equipped cellular phone

Osamu Takizawa, Masafumi Hosokawa, Ken'Ichi Takanashi, Yasushi Hada, Akihiro Shibayama, Byeong Pyo Jeong

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Abstract

The ability to accurately pinpoint the point of origin of an emergency call can greatly increase response times of emergency services. Emergency calls made from cellular phones can only be traced by the Global Positioning System (GPS) or cell-based positioning, which are sometimes unacceptably inaccurate; they cannot provide information on, e.g. the exact floor of a building and also suffer from blind spots. We have been developing a system that can determine the location of a cellular phone using in-built passive or active radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers and GPS receivers. This paper introduces the outline of the prototype system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobile Response - Second International Workshop on Mobile Information Technology for Emergency Response, MobileResponse 2008, Revised Selected Papers
Pages66-75
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Event2nd International Workshop on Mobile Information Technology for Emergency Response, MobileResponse 2008 - Bonn, Germany
Duration: 2008 May 292008 May 30

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5424 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2nd International Workshop on Mobile Information Technology for Emergency Response, MobileResponse 2008
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityBonn
Period08/5/2908/5/30

Keywords

  • Cellular-phone
  • Emergency call
  • GIS
  • GPS
  • RFID

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