PROJECT LIFESAVER UNVIELS NEW TECHNOLOGY AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE

PROJECT LIFESAVER UNVIELS NEW TECHNOLOGY AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 7, 2011

PROJECT LIFESAVER UNVIELS NEW TECHNOLOGY AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Wristband Transmitter Design Triples the Effective Range for Recoveries

Stuart, FL: The Project Lifesaver’s 2011 Annual Conference was recently held in Palm Beach Shores, Florida where Project Lifesaver Founder and CEO Gene Saunders introduced a redesigned direction finding system that increases the effective range for searches by as much as three hundred percent (300%). The new system has been jointly-developed by Project Lifesaver over the last year with Marshall Radio Telemetry of North Salt Lake, Utah.

Robert Bagley from Marshall Radio discussed the enhancements and new features of the redesigned radio direction technology. In addition to the increased range, the new wristband transmitters have double the battery life (60 days), programmable custom frequencies, are completely waterproof, shockproof, and temperature compensated to ensure the signal does not drift when moving from indoor to outdoor situations. Other upgraded features to the system include a smaller water-resistant tracking receiver with greater sensitivity and coverage for outdoor searches.

The number of Americans suffering from Alzheimer’s is growing dramatically. At the same time, leading authorities are alarmed at what they have now termed an epidemic of autistic children. Both of these “At Risk” groups have wandering tendencies. Project Lifesaver International is the premier organization nation-wide providing law enforcement and first responders with the training and technology to quickly find individuals with cognitive disorders who tend to wander. Following the signal from a small transmitter placed on the patient, first responders from “Member Agencies” who have been trained and certified by Project Lifesaver quickly track to the location of the wanderer. Recovery times for individuals in the Project Lifesaver program averages 30 minutes, compared to nine hours for individuals without the tracking system. To date Project Lifesaver’s success rate is 100%. Unfortunately, that cannot be said for individuals without the tracking system or with other less reliable systems.

Radio frequency technology is the simplest, yet the most reliable method of locating lost individuals in any possible setting, outperforming Global Positioning System (GPS) technology because of radio direction technology’s ability to locate wanderers inside of buildings, parking garages and other enclosed structures blocked from satellite view.

Extensive testing with several select member agencies has been ongoing and will continue over the next several months with a scheduled release of the newly designed system by the first quarter of 2012.

For more information about Project Lifesaver International and its program and technology contact:

Joseph Salenetri
Senior Communications Advisor
609-672-1441
or
Elizabeth Kappes
Director of Media & Communication
757-531-5105