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Portugese fire & rescue to use EGNOS location-based services(DMEurope Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)DMEUROPE-2 March 2006-Portugese fire & rescue to use EGNOS location-based services (C)2006 DMeurope.com (http://www.dmeurope.com) & DME Ltd. All rights reserved. Alcatel Alenia Space (AAS) will demonstrate the first emergency service based on EGNOS in Lisbon, Portugal, tomorrow. EGNOS is a precursor of Galileo, which will eventually provide navigation and location-based services (LBS) across Europe. AAS will demonstrate a LBS solution which will enable the Portuguese National Service for Fire and Civil Protection (SNBPC) in Lisbon to locate emergency calls from mobile phones to more efficiently guide its team's rescue operations. The solution coordinates fire trucks, resources and individual fire fighters during difficult interventions. The solution was developed as part of SCORE (Service of Coordinated Operational Emergency and Rescue using EGNOS), a European Research and Development Project. AAS leads a consortium of eight European companies which act as a contractor for the SCORE project. SCORE was launched in February 2004 and is managed by the Galileo Joint Undertaking, which is funded by the European Commission. The first satellites of the Galileo fleet have been launched, and the system will eventually provide LBS for most of the eastern hemisphere. |