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PLAS.MA: Person Loss Avoidance System for Mobile Applications

Overview The PLAS.MA project (Person Loss Avoidance System for Mobile Applications) targets groups of people whose members want to move independently in a certain environment without losing each other. The idea was inspired by the fact that the number of lost or abducted children hasn't decreased noticeably in the last decade. The basic idea of PLAS.MA is to tag each person within a group with a radio frequency module (pMod). These tags form an ad hoc network, supervised by one master node. PLAS.MA is an easy-to-use system capable of preventing the loss of a person from the mobile group either by accident or through abduction.

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Publisher	Humboldt University Berlin	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2004
Format	White Papers
Topics	GPS - GIS, Mobile - Wireless Communications

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