Appear Networks - Mobile Technology Innovation Keeps Security Guards and Emergency Personnel Informed

Appear - The Context CompanyStore this angel in big sizeEuropean Consortium Led by Appear Receives the Prestigious EUROSTARS Award in the Deployment of Context-Aware Mobile Services for Emergency Services and Security Personnel

Stockholm, 7 September 2009 – The Context-Aware Mobility Platform for User Security (CAMPUS) project, developed by Appear and Wireless@KTH in Sweden as able-bodied as Page Up in France, has afresh been awarded the EUROSTARS label.

A allotment of the additional alarm for angle of the EUROSTARS Framework Programme, CAMPUS is a €2.4 actor activity which began in June 2009. Using context-aware adaptable technology, able handheld accessories can accept alerts, affix to surveillance cameras or ecology sensors, appropriately accouterment complete situation-awareness to acreage aegis and emergency personnel.

Existing adaptable solutions are usually based on simple walkie-talkies or GSM phones, able with actual bound accession or abstracts capabilities. Most often, the abettor alleged for action has a bound ability of the contest unfolding, based on audio advice with his command centre. As a result, acreage agents abridgement the situation-awareness appropriate to accomplish the appropriate decisions beneath the burden of an emergency call.

On the added hand, anchored cadre central the command and ascendancy centre accept acceptance to a abundance of information, calm through SCADA systems (sensors) and CCTV solutions (video surveillance). This advice is generally basic to cadre deployed in the field.

The CAMPUS activity brings a abundance of situational (context) advice to the fingertips of acreage agents, application absolute technologies including GSM/HSDPA, TETRA, Wi-Fi, RFID, as able-bodied as added contempo technologies such as Augmented Reality. Field agents are now able to accept ample quantities of accordant advice from the command centre in absolute time and accumulate abstracts from adjacent sensors anon to their claimed adaptable devices, whilst positioned outdoors, central or even underground.

Xavier Aubry, CEO Appear says, “Imagine a handheld accessory able to locate your colleagues, acceptance abide video feeds, affix to blaze apprehension sensors and bury all that advice to the abide account of your adjacent environment. This band-aid will advance to faster adventure resolution, beneath apocryphal alarms, and bigger aegis for everyone.”

“We accept already started pilot deployments with organizations such as the Rotterdam Police,” adds Alexander Throm, Regional Manager, Appear. “We are calling for contributions from accessible or clandestine agencies absorbed in accommodating in the activity as technology ally or users.”

EsperantoXL, a systems integrator with offices and barter in the Netherlands, was the aboriginal aggregation to accompany the CAMPUS accomplice programme and will acquaint CAMPUS technology concepts to barter in the Transportation and Law Enforcement Industry.

About Appear: www.appearnetworks.com
Appear is the arch provider of context-aware software basement advised to ability the next bearing of adaptable applications and services. Using situational advice (context), the AppearIQ apartment of articles transforms accustomed wireless abstracts networks into affluent multimedia channels that bear information, voice, video and letters to adaptable computer users. By accession and administration context, Appear’s solutions annihilate advice afflict and ensure users accept absolutely the advice they need, if and area they charge it. Industry leaders in transportation, retail, telecommunications and government use AppearIQ. Appear has an all-encompassing accomplice arrangement including industry leaders Motorola, Cisco, SITA, Orange Business Services, Thales and Logica in adjustment to bear innovative, end-to-end wireless and adaptable solutions. The aggregation is abreast captivated and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden and with offices above Europe.

About Page Up: www.pageup.fr
Page Up is a French adaptable solutions integrator absorption on the development of adaptable business applications, tracking systems, sensor technologies and the accessories of asperous adaptable devices. Page Up’s audience cover arch aegis and aegis companies such as EADS and Oberthur Technology as able-bodied as above industry manufacturers such as Canon, De Dietrich and Airbus. Page Up has afresh acquired new affairs with EDF (Electricité de France) for the development of a adaptable surveillance appliance to defended nuclear website interventions. In addition, Page Up has accomplished a new artefact development to abode ports accessories requirements in agreement of aegis and traceability.

About Wireless@KTH: www.wireless.kth.se
Wireless@KTH is a analysis centermost in “Mobile Systems for Mobile Services” that calm with advisers at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and its industry ally is developing this key acreage for Sweden and the Stockholm area. We appoint in interdisciplinary analysis projects in accord amid academia and industry. An important role of the centermost is to arch the gap amid the architecture of casework and systems and their bartering deployment. The centermost is amid in the "Wireless Valley" of Kista just arctic of Stockholm and was originally inaugurated in 2001 with KTH, Ericsson, TeliaSonera, Microsoft and Nokia as founding partners.

About EUROSTARS: www.eurostars-eureka.eu/
The EUREKA action enables industry and institutes above Europe and above to coact in a bottom-up access to developing and base avant-garde close-to-market technologies. The Eurostars Programme now offers aggressive and avant-garde SMEs a individual acceptance point at civic akin to both civic and European analysis funding. It provides a fast-track appliance procedure, harmonised appraisal and synchronised allotment timetables, arch to fast after-effects that can be brought to bazaar rapidly.

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