In an emergency situation on board a cruise ship the officers responsible for security will know exactly where the passenger is in real time. This is possible due to the incorporation of a label in the vest wireless developed within the European research project. The researchers used wireless technologies with low energy consumption to locate and follow the route for passengers and crew members who are on board a ship.

With these wireless label innovative researchers consider coming to revolutionize the current emergency management and evacuation of ships in a situation of accidents. Anastasis Kounoudes, technical and executive director of the company SignalGeneriX who have been involved in the project, said in a statement the European Commission (EC), states that "the officers responsible for security will thus know exactly where each passenger and crew member are during an evacuation. "

The researchers use the same technology to monitor the health of patients, in this case we should use special bracelets, to locate children in large cruise ships, which, given the size and the number of thousands of passengers and crew carrying is easy to lose If the family.

Under the project the researchers also developed a radar device able to determine the exact location of all passengers who have fallen into water, the statement said the EC.