A Mobile System for Effective Emergency Response and Situation Awareness in Large Indoor Environments
Dr. William Ribarsky, Professor, CS Department, UNC, Charlotte
A Wireless Automated Accountability System for On-Site Incident Management
Joe Denny, VP, Production Management, Terahop Networks, Inc.
Randy Edwards, Senior Director, Product Management, Terahop Networks, Inc.
Hierarchical Grid Referenced Normalized Display (HiGRND)
Daniel Glasser, Software Engineer, 21st Century Systems, Inc.
Roger Meisinger, Vice President WEDJAT Division, 21st Century Systems, Inc.
Scalable Location and Tracking Solutions for First Responders
Steve Huseth, Staff Scientist, Honeywell Labs
Andrew Berezowski, ACS Fellow, Honeywell
"First Responders-The Real World": Hands On
Ric Plummer, Engineer, Berlin Fire Department, Berlin, MA
Tpr. Jeff Lenti, Special Tactical Operations (STOp Team), MSPA
Physiological Status Monitoring (PSM) System
John Powers, Business Dev. Manager QinetiQ North America/Foster-Miller
David McDonald, Program Manager, QinetiQ North America/ Foster Miller
BALSM (Battlefield Automatic Life Status Monitor)
Peter Neumann, Senior Scientist, QinetiQ North America (Planning Systems, Inc)
SAFE Locator-A Robust and Long Range Indoor Tracking System for Typical Buildings
John Taylor, President, Mercury Data Systems (MDS)
Ultrawideband (UWB) Ranging and Communications Network
Brandon Dewberry, Sr. Principal Engineer/Technologist, Time Domain Corporation
Greg Clawson, Vice President, Time Domain Corporation
Heuristic Drift Elimination in Personnel Tracking Systems
Johann Borenstein, Research Professor, University of Michigan
APCO25 System Integration of Physiological Status Monitoring
Jonathan Woodward, CTO, Zephyr Technology Corp
Fabio Yonezawa, Sr. Applications Manager, Motorola
TRX Sentinel Tracking System
Carole Teolis, CEO, TRX Systems
Improved Pedestrian Navigation Based on Drift-Reduced NavChip(tm) MEMS IMU
Eric Foxlin, CTO, Intersense Inc.
The Pathfinder System
Wayne C. Haase, PhD., President, Summit Safety, Inc
SafetyFR(tm) and SafetySet(tm) A First Responder Real Time Location System
Dan Grant, CMO, Intelligent Safety Solutions
3D Building Visualization and Scene Management for Incident Commanders
Dr. Stephen McCauley, Product Manager, Visualization Technologies, Kutta Technologies

3:00 - Indoor Navigation Solutions/Government Perspectives on Location Technology

(Moderator: William Haskell, Program Manager, NIOSH-NPPTL)

Soldier Navigation Architecture Study (SNAS)
Gina Guiducci, Project Engineer, US Army CERDEC
Van Tran, Electronics Engineer, CERDEC/US Army
Technologies for First Responder Indoor Localization
Jouni Rantakokko, Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI

4:00 - Break

4:15 - Physiological Status Monitoring for First Responders

(Moderator: Eric Overstorm, Department Head/Director, Life Sciences and Engineering Center, Biology & Biotechnology, WPI)

Status of a Commercial Physiological Status Monitoring (PSM) System
John Powers, QinetiQ North America/Foster Miller
Mark Mordecai, Globe Manufacturing, Inc.
Physiological Monitoring of Firefighting
Dr. Denise Smith, Professor, Skidmore University
APCO25 System Integration of Physiological Status Monitoring
Jonathan Woodward, CTO, Zephyr Technology Corp
Fabio Yonezawa, Sr. Applications Manager, Motorola
BALSM (Battlefield Automatic Life Status Monitor)
Peter Neumann, Senior Scientist, QinetiQ North America (Planning Systems, Inc)

5:30 - Adjourn

6:00 - Reception and Barbeque

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Tuesday, August 4th

7:30 - Continental breakfast

8:00 - RF-Based Positioning

(Moderator: Steve Huseth, Staff Scientist, Honeywell Labs)

WPI RF Precision Indoor Location System: Progress and Updates
Dr. David Cyganski, ECE Dept., WPI
SafetyFR(tm) and SafetySet(tm) A First Responder Real Time Location System
Dan Grant, CMO, Intelligent Safety Solutions
A Hybrid Indoor Tracking System for First Responders
Marc Harlacher, Director, Location Solutions, Argon ST
Lin Haas, Program Manager, Argon ST

Complementary Technologies

Fundamental Differences between Location, Tracking and Navigation Systems
Wayne C. Haase, PhD., President, Summit Safety, Inc
A Mobile System for Effective Emergency Response and Situation Awareness in Large Indoor Environments
Dr. William Ribarsky, Professor, CS Department, UNC, Charlotte
SAFIRE - Technological Research and Solutions Impacting Situational Awareness for Firefighters
Dr. Christopher B. Davison, UCI - SAFIRE Project
3D Building Visualization and Scene Management for Incident Commanders
Dr. Stephen McCauley, Product Manager, Visualization Tech., Kutta Technologies
James Bona III, Sr. Software Engineer, Kutta Technologies

10:30 - Break

Parallel Working Sessions on the State of the Art

12:00 - Lunch

12:45 - Remarks

Congressman James P. McGovern, 3rd District, MA

12:30 - Keynote Speaker

Personnel Location Briefing
Joseph Heaps, Deputy Chief, Information Sensor Technologies Division, Office of Science and Technology, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice

1:30 - Plenary Working Session

(Moderator: Dr. R. James Duckworth, WPI)

2:15 - Plans for the Future

(Moderator Dr. R. James Duckworth)

System Demonstrations - Worcester Fire Dept.

(Moderator/Organizer: Ric Plummer, Engineer, Berlin, MA Fire Dept.)

Overview
SAFE Locator-A Robust and Long Range Indoor Tracking System for Typical Buildings
John Taylor, President, Mercury Data Systems (MDS)

5:00 Adjourn

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