- Got a hot car? Maybe it’s on fire. TechnoCom Corp. said it is working on a technology that will use location-based services to allow a TechnoCom representative to identify which car from a group of cars is on fire. The technology also can identify other problems, such as which car has its owner locked out. The company planned to demonstrate the technology on the General Motors lot in Detroit as part of the ITS VII/V2V Technology Showcase at SAE Convergence. The show included Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) and Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) technology demonstrations.
- Mobile phones may soon be employed in the battle against major worldwide health crises like HIV/AIDS and the avian flu. The GSM Association Development Fund and Voxiva Inc. said they have partnered to develop a mobile-phone application designed to help health authorities and governments track and manage the spread of such diseases. Using the application, health workers can use the application to submit data such as disease outbreaks, drug inventory levels, patient treatment status and other information to central health authorities. Voxiva is providing its Health Management Information Systems to the effort.
- Two hikers lost in a heavily wooded area in Tennessee used the flash on their cell-phone camera to alert rescuers to their location. The pair alerted officials that they were lost, but rescuers initially were unable to find them using infrared devices. One of the hikers then used her cell-phone’s camera flash to signal their location to a rescue helicopter in the area. The pilot saw the camera flash using night-vision goggles and was able to direct rescuers on the ground to the couple’s location.
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