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Innovative Technologies for Safe Ship Evacuation: The Lynceus Project Athens, 18 th April 2013

A Real Maritime Industry Need Despite the huge investment in maritime technology today, there are still many fatalities accounted in accidents involving ships, due to the inability of current technology to identify the exact position of people when onboard during the evacuation procedure or when in the sea. The Lynceus technology aims to fill this industry need by providing low cost and robust innovative technology for localising each individual to be rescued onboard or in the sea, thus maximising the probability of safe rescue and minimising loss of life. 2

MS Costa Concordia (13 January 2012) • The ship was carrying 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew members • All but 34 were rescued • As of 22 March 2012, 32 bodies had been found, with two people known to be missing • The two people unaccounted for are presumed dead • The search for bodies was abandoned at the end of January 3

Project Idea The objective of the Lynceus project is to develop and demonstrate ultra-low power wireless body-area-network technologies for enabling unobtrusive localisation and tracking of people for onboard and overboard search and rescue as well as for safe evacuation of ships during emergency. The Lynceus novel technology will be transferred into the SME- driven market segments of smoke alarm/fire detection systems, lifesaving equipment, emergency management decision support systems and assistive search and rescue equipment through the participation of SME and SME Associations. 4

Project Overview Start date: April 2012 Duration: 36 months Project Reference: 286148 Project cost: 3.3MEURO Project Funding: 2.5M EURO Programme Area: Research for SME associations (FP7) Consortium: Fifteen partners from 8 Countries Four RTD Performers: Two Large Companies Four SMEs: Four SME Associations: LOUIS (GR) - SG (CY) - CAMPI (IT) -FORO (ES) LLOYDS (UK) - CSEM (CH) -ATEVAL (ES) - SFM (IT) - TUD (GER) -SEPVE (GR) - GGD (CY) Project Coordinator - MARINEM (CY) -ETEK (CY) - OPTIONS (GR) TALOS (CY) 5

An Industry Pulled Project 6

Roles in the Project 7

Main Research & Development Areas 8

LYNCEUS Innovative Technology 9

Beyond the State of the Art  Onboard System  CCTV cameras  RFID 10

Beyond the State of the Art  Overboard System  Light  GPS/GSM 11

Use Cases – Industries (1) Life saving and survival Fire detection and smoke alarm systems 12

Use Cases – Industries (2) Safe evacuation and emergency management decision support Search and Rescue 13

Strong Hellenic Participation Technical Coordination Project Coordinator 14

Thank you for your attention For further Information about LYNCEUS: Dr. Antonis Kalis SignalGeneriX Ltd Project Technical Coordinator Tel: +357 25870072 Email: akal@signalgenerix.com Web: www.lynceus-project.eu 15