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Subject: Re: [emergency] FYI: Cell phones to be used as data source in disasters
How true :-( Carl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kon Wilms" <kon@datacast.biz> To: "Carl Reed OGC" <creed@opengeospatial.org>; <emergency@lists.oasis-open.org> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [emergency] FYI: Cell phones to be used as data source in disasters > Unfortunately our (USA) present digital terrestrial broadcasting > modulation scheme and its lack of mobile reception prevents us from > doing this. > > Cheers > Kon > >> >> Thought this might be of interest. >> >> Carl >> >> Cell phones to be used as data source in disasters >> Japan Today - Tokyo,Japan -- More than one year has passed > since terrestrial digital broadcasting services began a new TV era in > Japan, with the services spreading from major cities to some rural areas > where prefectural government offices are located. "This is a news > bulletin. There was a strong earthquake in the Kanto region," the voice > of an announcer sounded from a mobile phone in a shirt pocket. When the > user looked at the liquid crystal screen, it automatically changed to a > TV screen, and text containing information began to appear in the lower > part of the screen. This is the scene of a demonstration using a mobile > phone produced on a trial basis that can receive terrestrial digital > broadcasting services. KDDI Corp and Hitachi Ltd are jointly developing > the mobile phone. The terminal is equipped with a global positioning > system (GPS). "Linked with the GPS, broadcasters can also automatically > send information about the nearest shelter," said Tatsuo Shibata, deputy > director of the media technology development department at KDDI... > >
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