STOCKHOLM, September 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- European Consortium Led by Appear Receives the Prestigious EUROSTARS
Award in the Deployment of Context-Aware Mobile Services for Emergency
Services and Security Personnel

The Context-Aware Mobility Platform for User Security (CAMPUS)
project, developed by Appear and Wireless@KTH in Sweden as well as Page Up in
France, has recently been awarded the EUROSTARS label.

A part of the second call for proposal of the EUROSTARS
Framework Programme, CAMPUS is a EUR2.4 million project which began in June
2009. Using context-aware mobile technology, intelligent handheld devices can
receive alerts, connect to surveillance cameras or environmental sensors,
thus providing complete situation-awareness to field security and emergency
personnel.

Existing mobile solutions are usually based on simple
walkie-talkies or GSM phones, equipped with very limited positioning or data
capabilities. Most often, the agent called for intervention has a limited
knowledge of the events unfolding, based on audio communication with his
command centre. As a result, field agents lack the situation-awareness
required to make the right decisions under the pressure of an emergency call.

On the other hand, stationary personnel inside the command and
control centre have access to a wealth of information, collected through
SCADA systems (sensors) and CCTV solutions (video surveillance). This
information is often vital to personnel deployed in the field.

The CAMPUS project brings a wealth of situational (context)
information to the fingertips of field agents, using existing technologies
including GSM/HSDPA, TETRA, Wi-Fi, RFID, as well as more recent technologies
such as Augmented Reality. Field agents are now able to receive large
quantities of relevant information from the command centre in real time and
gather data from nearby sensors directly to their personal mobile devices,
whilst positioned outdoors, indoors or even underground.

Xavier Aubry, CEO Appear says, "Imagine a handheld device able
to locate your colleagues, access live video feeds, connect to fire detection
sensors and overlay all that information to the live picture of your nearby
environment. This solution will lead to faster incident resolution, fewer
false alarms, and improved security for everyone."

"We have already started pilot deployments with organizations
such as the Rotterdam Police," adds Alexander Throm, Regional Manager,
Appear. "We are calling for contributions from public or private agencies
interested in participating in the project as technology partners or users."

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