People Localization for Safe Ship Evacuation During Emergency (LYNCEUS)

Project Overview

The objective of the LYNCEUS project was to investigate and demonstrate ultra-low power wireless body-area-network technologies for enabling unobtrusive localisation and tracking of people for onboard and overboard search and rescue as well as for safe evacuation of ships during emergency. The LYNCEUS technology aims to revolutionise current emergency management and ship evacuation practice through the development of beyond the state-of-the-art real-time emergency management and safe evacuation systems which will significantly contribute towards early localisation and rescue of people in danger located onboard a ship or in the sea.

The proposed research generated high societal and market impact for the European SMEs, and enabled major technological breakthroughs in the areas of ultra-low power wireless systems, wearable antennas, wireless and sensor electronics, digital signal processing and decision support systems.

Partners Involved

• RTD Talos Limited (Cyprus)
• Association of Information Technology Companies of Northern Greece (Greece)
• Safemarine SRl (Italy)
• G.G. Dedalos Technology Services Ltd (Cyprus)
• Optionsnet (Greece)
• Canepa and Campi Srl (Italy)
• Technical Chamber of Cyprus (Cyprus)
• ATEVAL (Spain)
• Centre Suisse d’ Electronique et Microtechnique SA, CSEM (Switzerland)
• The Basque Maritime Forum (Spain)
• Technical University of Dresden (Germany)
• SignalGeneriX Ltd (Cyprus)
• Maritime Insitute of Eastern Mediterranean (Cyprus)
• Luis Ship Management Limited (Cyprus)
• Lloyd’s Registered EMEA (UK)

For more information you can visit the project’s dedicated website: http://www.lynceus-project.eu/

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 286148.