AIOSAT – AUTONOMOUS INDOOR & OUTDOOR SAFETY TRACKING SYSTEM

Iñigo Adin 1, Paul Zabalegui 2, Alejandro Perez 3, Jaione Arrizabalaga 4, Jon Goya 5, Jaizki Mendizabal 6

1CEIT Universidad de Navarra, Tecnun San Sebastian, Spain

2CEIT Universidad de Navarra, Tecnun San Sebastian, Spain

3CEIT Universidad de Navarra, Tecnun San Sebastian, Spain

4CEIT Universidad de Navarra, Tecnun San Sebastian, Spain

5CEIT Universidad de Navarra, Tecnun San Sebastian, Spain

6CEIT Universidad de Navarra, Tecnun San Sebastian, Spain

DOI: 10.1515/aon-2019-0003

ABSTRACT

Even though satellite-based positioning increases rescue workers’ safety and efficiency, signal availability, reliability, and accuracy are often poor during fire operations, due to terrain formation, natural and structural obstacles or even the conditions of the operation. In central Europe, the stakeholders report a strong necessity to complement the location for mixed indoor-outdoor and GNSS blocked scenarios. As such, location information often needs to be augmented. For that, European Global Navigation Satellite System Galileo could help by improving the availability of the satellites with different features. Moreover, a multi-sensored collaborative system could also take advantage of the rescue personnel who are already involved in firefighting and complement the input data for positioning.
The Autonomous Indoor & Outdoor Safety Tracking System (AIOSAT) is a multinational project founded through the Horizon 2020 program, with seven partners from Spain, Netherlands and Belgium. It is reaching the first year of progress (out of 3) and the overarching objective of AIOSAT system is to advance beyond the state of the art in tracking rescue workers by creating a high availability and high integrity team positioning and tracking system. On the system level approach, this goal is achieved by fusing the GNSS, EDAS/EGNOS, pedestrian dead reckoning and ultra-wide band ranging information, possibly augmented with map data. The system should be able to work both inside buildings and rural areas, which are the test cases defined by the final users involved in the consortium and the advisory board panel of the project

KEYWORDS

GNSS, Galileo, EDAS, tracking, firefighting, multisensor, fusion, communication optimization

REFERENCES

[1] White paper of Fire Safe Europe launched on 2 December 2014 in the European Parliament http://firesafeeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Europe-is-playing-with-fire-_-White-Paper_FSEU_03_12_2014.pdf
[2] Rules of Engagement for Structural Firefighting, 2012 International Association of Fire Chiefs
[3] RTCM, “RTCM STANDARD 10403.3 DIFFERENTIAL GNSS (GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS) SERVICES – VERSION 3,” 2016.
[4] N.N. Brushlinsky, M. Arhens, S.V. Sokolov, P. Wagner, World Fire Statistics v.28 2018
[5] Autonomous Indoor/Outdoor Safety Tracking System (AIOSAT) webpage, http://www.aiosat.eu/
[6] J. Laarhuis, MoSeS ondersteunt brandweer, NIDV Magazine, 1-2018
[7] M. Acton, Data-Oriented Design and C++, CppCon 2014
[8] William J. Kellar, Miles P. Moody, Transmission of RTK Corrections and Measurements using Optimal Coding, Journal of Global Positioning Systems 2006
[9] IEC, “ISO 18305 –Information technology – Real Time Locating Systems — Test and evaluation,”, 2016.