WPI garners $1 million award for system that could prevent firef...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sun, 11/29/2009 - 23:00

(Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Worcester Polytechnic Institute has received a one-year, $1 million award from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to develop the final component of an integrated monitoring system designed to reduce firefighter deaths and injuries by precisely locating and tracking them inside buildings, continuously monitoring their vital signs to warn incident commanders when they are at risk of stress-related heart attacks, and taking floor-to-ceiling temperature readings inside buildings to provide an early warning of flashover.

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