GeoConnexion
 
Home
 
Geo: International
 
This month's issue Online News Online Articles
 
GeoConnexionUK
 
This month's issue Online News Online Articles
 
GEOlympics
 
GeoRisk
 
GeoResources
 
Recruitment Directory Events Education Subscription Contact Details Media Pack ISPRS - Information From Imagery FIG - International Federation of Serveyors RIN - Royal Institute of Navigation
 
Login
Email: Password:

 

Forgotten your details?
Click here
 
 
Click here to download Adobe Acrobat Reader

Geo: International > News > News Item

Ubisense Precise Real-time Location a Areva NP

Dortmund – 25th November 2008 – Areva NP, the world leader in design and construction of nuclear power plants has deployed in production usage the Ubisense Real-time Location System for a critical safety application within their new central archive complex in Erlangen, Germany. The system has been installed and configured by Dynamic Systems, a specialist in industrial identification and monitoring.

The archive stores plans and other printed building documents for up to 90 years as required by the regulations and laws governing nuclear facilities. In order to prevent loss or damage due to fire or water from the use of extinguishers, a system is installed which floods the archive with nitrogen. In such a situation, it is imperative to be able to immediately locate and find all personnel precisely and reliably to facilitate rapid rescue and evacuation. "It’s important for us that the location system both works reliably in emergency situations to support our rescue personnel and that it conforms to all the standards and regulations. That is the reason why we decided together with Dynamic Systems to work with Ubisense" commented Dr. Orgent Seydel at Areva.

Dynamic Systems and Ubisense have delivered a complete solution using networked sensors and active tags to Areva, providing personnel tracking within an area of 1,800m2 of the archive, which is divided into several individual rooms. Visitors and employees are registered and supplied with a location tag upon entry. "The integrated Ubisense 3D Visualisation provides a graphical indication of where the personnel are at all times. In addition an associated list is maintained, indicating in real-time exactly in which areas staff are located", explains Dr. Harald Lossau, MD of Dynamic Systems.


For more information visit:

www.ubisense.net


Geo: International

 

Past Issues - Archive
Togo 4th UN-SPIDER Technical Advisory Mission … More…
03 July 2009, 4:00pm
The GIS Management Handbook published… More…
03 July 2009, 2:51pm
EUGISES - 7th European GIS Education Seminar, 2010… More…
03 July 2009, 2:03pm
Temperature Data Loggers Deployed in Arctic … More…
03 July 2009, 12:40pm
Interferogram over the Wenchuan earthquake… More…
03 July 2009, 3:18pm
Mouchel launches CAFE project at INSPIRE Conferenc… More…
03 July 2009, 12:25pm
ZPrinter® 650 Stimulates University Collaboration… More…
02 July 2009, 12:52pm
What to expect from the Semantic Web… More…
22 June 2009, 11:40am
ESA map reveals European shipping routes… More…
25 May 2009, 1:44pm
This Month's Burning Issue...
Each month we select a hot topic and a leading figure in the industry to write about it.
This month's burning issue:

How valuable are our efforts on SDIs if we don’t actively address the human issues? Think about all the government regulations, technical implementation plans, internal processes and procedures, data sharing networks and so on. These are arguably meaningless if there is no buy-in or understanding from the people who must deliver against them.

During the 1Spatial Conference 2008 where there was a large number of presentations on a wide range of important industry topics ranging from data quality, data integration and data maintenance to open source and INSPIRE. But there were very few presentations that focused on the human aspects of our business.… More…


Website content & images remain the intellectual property of GeoConnexion Ltd. All rights reserved