GeoGeny

GeoGeny, developed by the Swiss-based CPR Group Inc is being used at the Montreux Jazz festival to follow the movements of all the interveners in the field – the police, firemen, ambulance men, tow trucks and life boats – and kept them permanently informed how the situation was evolving. In addition, the system handled all the searches for festival goers who had got lost. The system uses an impressive list of technologies GPS, SMS, MMS, GSM, GPRS, EVF, RFID, and UMTS. GPS positioning is done using the SiRFstartIII chipset that is supposed to work in many indoor environments, urban canyons, and under dense foliage by using signal-processing correlators to increase the sensitivity.

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