Project Lifesaver

Today I was lucky enough to have met Mike Pruitt.

He is a fire-fighter at Wayne Township fire dept., Indianapolis

He is also the coordinator for Project Lifesaver in Indianapolis.

Project Lifesaver has been around for about 12-13 years ,it uses relatively easy use tech, based on radio waves.

“Citizens enrolled in Project Lifesaver wear a small personal transmitter around the wrist or ankle that emits an individualized tracking signal. If an enrolled client goes missing, the caregiver notifies their local Project Lifesaver agency, and a trained emergency team responds to the wanderer’s area. Most who wander are found within a few miles from home, and search times have been reduced from hours and days to minutes. Recovery times for PLI clients average 30 minutes — 95% less time than standard operations.”

http://www.projectlifesaver.org/

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This is a quote from their website, speaking to Mike he confirms that their average find time is 30 minutes.

I was aware of Project Lifesaver and that previously there was an attempt to use it in the UK however at this time there are no deployments of it .Here they use it on autistic kids with great find results.

Kent Police have looked at Tech tracking recently , this is cheaper and has a longer battery life than anything that we looked at.

With such impressive results and ,reluctantly I would say in these time of financial austerity with resources being reduced, we should  look more seriously at such tech?