News & Events

Current News and Events

August 6-7, 2012, "Precision Indoor Personnel Location and Tracking Annual International Technology Workshop"

External Press

"Worcester Firefighters Help Scientists Get Closer to Better Firefighter Tracking", video clip, Charter TV 3 - Katie Daly speaks with local officials about how high tech locating equipment can help keep firefighters safe, Published Wednesday, August 3, 2011
"Research Aims To Improve Firefighter Tracking", OfficialWire.com, article by Johanna Kaiser, August 2, 2011
"Private Sector Vital To NASA's Future", article By Matt Pilon, Worcester Business Journal Staff Writer, August 2, 2011
"Indicator devices on display in Worcester", NECN.com, video clip, posted, August 3, 2011
"Firefighter locator may finally be on the horizon", Worcester Telegram & Gazette, article by Martin Luttrell TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF, Tuesday, August 3, 2010
"Workshop to Address Critical Need for Technology to Track First Responders Inside Buildings", 9-1-1.com, July 19,2011
"Review of Worcester Polytechnic Institute's fourth annual Precision Indoor Personnel Location and Tracking for Emergency Responders workshop", article by John Sullivan, Aug 27, 2011
"Workshop Tracks Progress on Firefighter Locator", Firehouse.com, article by Ed Ballam, Friday, August 5, 2011, updated Monday, August 8, 2011
Channel 3 TV, Worcester, MA, video clip, Tuesday, August 2, 2011
"Technology to Track Lost Firefighters Evolves", By Dr. R. James Duckworth, Daily Planet (Technology News Program),
Video clip, testing of flashover device, Discovery Channel Canada, October 14, 2010 (video time span: 00:7:11 to 00:13:00)
"When rescuers need rescuing", video clip and article, Boston Globe, August 30, 2010
"Indoor locator device for firefighter, first responder on the horizon", aricle published by Homeland Security News Wire, August 9, 2010
Professors David Cyganski and James Duckworth Receive $1M from FEMA
Pages on Integrated Firefighter Locating and Physiological Monitoring established
"New firefighterlocation technology unveiled", The Boston Globe, Article by Hiawatha Bray, August 3, 2010
"Indicator devices on display in Worcester", NECN: Melissa Toupin, Worcester, Mass., Aug 3, 2010 8:00pm
"Flashover Warning," by Mark Mordecai, Firehouse Magazine, pp. 160-163, April, 2010
"Device to predict flashover in development: Worcester Polytechnice Institute engineers and graduate students are developing a device that will give firefighters a 20- to 30- second warning", by Aaron Nicodemus, March 17, 2010
Fireground Environmental Sensor System (ESM), TempSensor News.com March 2, 2010
"PASS devices add wireless capabilities, but reliability still is questioned," by Mary Rose Roberts, Fire Chief Magazine, March 2010
"Using networked sensors, firefighters can escape burning buildings alive," by Andrew Nusca, smartplanet.com, February 26, 2010
"Networked Sensors Track Firefighters to Get Them Out Alive", Popular Science, Article by Sandeep Ravindran, 2/22/2010
"From ashes, progress...FATAL FIRE FOLLOWED BY COMMUNITY SUPPORT", Aaron Nicodemus, Worcester Telegram&Gazette, December 2, 2009
"WPI tackles firefighter locator-Life-saving technology funded with $5 million federal grants", by Aaron Nicodemus, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, December 1, 2009

Internal Press

'WPI’s Personnel Location and Tracking Technology conference gets national press", WPI Connection, article by Martin Luttrell, Marketing and Communications, August 3, 2011
When Every Second Counts, by Ami Albernaz: WPI Research, 2008
Safe Exit, WPI Transformations: A Journal of People and Change, Winter 2004.

News Releases

S. Rep. Jim McGovern, Sens. Edward M. Kennedy and John Kerry Announce Million for Worcester Polytechnic Institute, WPI, February 14, 2003

Past Events

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