04 déc

Using cellphones to locate survivors

A private initiative is monitoring mobile phones with international roaming to trace the location of any stranded survivors of the Tsunami disaster: “There were 10,252 international roaming phones working on Sri Lankan networks at the time of the tragedy,??? Chris Dharmakirti, who is heading the Tidal Wave Rescue Centre said. “We sent everyone an sms and got responses from 2,321. He said 5,983 roaming phones had gone dead since the disaster while 4,269 phones had been used to make at least one call after the tragedy. “Whenever anyone used the phone, we could track where the person was and restrict our search to affected areas of the country.??? “Last night we had a response from a British tourist and based on tracking his call we were able to locate a total of 36 stranded Britons,??? Dharmakirti said. “Four of them were critically wounded, but we managed to get to them to safety.???

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