A test was conducted at University of California, San Diego researchers last week aptly called The Operation College Freedom drill. It involved a coordinated effort by the school and local
emergency and law-enforcement officials to respond to a simulated terrorist attack.
The drill involved a system test called the Wireless Internet Information System for Medical Response in Disasters (WIISARD) that's designed for tracking mass casualties, coordinating triage and managing medical data.
"This full-scale exercise is the culmination of a three-year, US$4 million research project carried out by the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology," said Calit2 Associate Director Leslie Lenert, a professor of medicine at UCSD and Director of Health Services Research for the VA San Diego Healthcare System, in a statement.
Some of cool gadgets that were tested are included below :
CalMesh: An ad-hoc network of lightweight Wi-Fi access points.
iTag: A system for tagging patients so that their medical status can be determined locally and tracked centrally.
Antenna Caddy: A sort of mast structure for raising multiple types of antennas at a disaster scene.
RealityFlythrough: A helmet-cam/wireless tablet PC that enables first responders to send real-time video and still images to a central server that can be used to compile a broader picture of a disaster scene.
University of California test terrorist-proof wireless network source
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