[Satellite Today – 5-29-08] TriaGnoSys, a mobile satellite communications provider has completed the successful trial of its disaster-recovery communications solution, designed to establish a GSM communications infrastructure in the first 24 hours following a disaster, the company said May 29. The system can be used for the electronic location tagging of injured victims and real-time transmission of their electronic medical records.
    The TriaGnoSys satellite-based solution allows a single person to carry and deploy the equipment to establish a local GSM network. The network can be set up in minutes and has a range of 700 meters. GSM compatible phones can then be used in the area, removing the need for satellite phones. The TriaGnoSys solution was tested as part of the first demonstration of the disaster response communications systems developed by WISECOM (Wireless Infrastructure over Satellite for Emergency COMmunications), a European Union-funded project. One of the applications demonstrated was an electronic classification and registration of victims, or triage. GPS location and information of the victims were automatically transmitted from the rescue team’s PDAs via the satellite-based WISECOM communication infrastructure to a remote coordination centre.