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| 2003-09-14 | |
| Severely EFL. Researchers are testing ideas aimed at avoiding communications problems that have plagued emergency workers for years and became especially apparent on Sept. 11, 2001. Perched on a hilltop campus across the Hudson River from Manhattan, researcher Paul Kolodzy sees more than New York’s hulking grandeur and the gap where the World Trade Center once towered. He sees innumerable places where wireless technologies ought to be making everyone safer. Those ferries on the river? Let’s give them satellite transponders that could get important data if radio systems become swamped in a crisis. That Port Authority building? Let’s send it information with a laser. And, says Kolodzy, why not give authorities in different agencies a way to share encrypted information instantly through whatever kinds of networks - like radio, cell phone, Wi-Fi - are available to them at any given moment. Kolodzy and other researchers are testing these ideas at the Stevens Institute of Technology’s Wireless Network Security Center with one main goal: avoiding the communications knots that glared on Sept. 11. Clever, smart guys doing an important job. Read the rest at the link.
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| Posted by:Steve White |