Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2015, 17(1):81-86 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2015.1.81-86

A Surveillance System for Enhancing the Safety of Rescue Teams

Zdenek Hon1, Pavel Smrcka2, Karel Hana2, Jan Kaspar2, Jan Muzik2, Radek Fiala2, Martin Viteznik2, Tomas Vesely2, Lukas Kucera2, Tomas Kuttler2, Radim Kliment2, Vaclav Navratil1
1 Department of Health Care Disciplines and Population Protection, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
2 Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering Czech Technical University and Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

The article summarizes preliminary results of the research and development of a system focused on enhancing the safety of teams participating in the integrated rescue system managing extraordinary events or crisis situations (fire, mass disaster, release of harmful industrial substances), and on the support in the course of training. Individual partial technical solutions are mentioned, which should lead to providing automatized telemetric monitoring equipment in a more resistant form making it possible to recognize the nature and intensity of the motion, including the determination of the topical and total energy outputs, monitoring of environmental parameters (temperature, smoke, etc.) and back analysis of the intervention course or training in real time, and the monitoring of health-physiological parameters and signalling risk conditions (physical exhaustion, stress, overheating, etc.) under extreme measures.

Keywords: integrated rescue system; monitoring; surveillance system; safety

Published: February 28, 2015  Show citation

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Hon, Z., Smrcka, P., Hana, K., Kaspar, J., Muzik, J., Fiala, R., ... Navratil, V. (2015). A Surveillance System for Enhancing the Safety of Rescue Teams. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 17(1), 81-86. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2015.1.81-86
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