When police, fire or ambulance personnel receive an emergency call, they must pinpoint its place of origin in order to respond quickly. When such a call is made from a cellular phone, its place of origin can be determined by using GPS or a cell-based positioning method. However, these methods are sometimes inaccurate and have blind spots. We developed a system for determining location using RFID-reader-equipped cellular phones and RFID tags. We outline the prototype system here.
Index Terms:
RFID, positioning, GPS, cellular-phone, emergency call
Citation:
Osamu Takizawa, Masafumi Hosokawa, Ken?ichi Takanashi, Yasushi Hada, Akihiro Shibayama, Byeong-pyo Jeong, "Pinpointing the Place of Origin of a Cellular Phone Emergency Call Using Active RFID Tags," ainaw, pp.1123-1128, 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Workshops (aina workshops 2008), 2008