Design and Implementation of Instantly Deployable Localization System in Remote Areas

One of the most important information in outdoor emergency rescue is the location of the trapped people. The more quickly and precisely the location can be determined, the more chance the victims can be saved. In this paper, an instantly deployable localization system is proposed, which takes the mobile phone carried by the trapped people as the localization carrier, and consists of several Portable Detection Equipments (PDEs) to detect the Global System for Mobile (GSM) communication signals. A Remote Emergency Localization (REL) approach is proposed to calculate the location of the mobile phone. A simulation and practical experiments are carried out to verify the availability, portability and reliability of the localization system. The results show that the instantly deployable localization system is well-suited and efficient for outdoor emergency rescue.