Innovative Technologies for Safe

Ship Evacuation:
The Lynceus Project
Athens, 18th 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.

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
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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 SMEdriven 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.
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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 SME Associations:
-FORO (ES)
-ATEVAL (ES)
-SEPVE (GR)
-ETEK (CY)

Four SMEs:
- CAMPI (IT)

Four RTD Performers:

- SG (CY)

- SFM (IT)
- GGD (CY)
- OPTIONS (GR)

- CSEM (CH)
- TUD (GER)
- MARINEM (CY)

Two Large Companies

LOUIS (GR)
LLOYDS (UK)

Project Coordinator
TALOS (CY)

An Industry Pulled Project

Roles in the Project

Main Research & Development Areas

LYNCEUS Innovative Technology

Beyond the State of the Art

Onboard System
CCTV cameras

RFID

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Beyond the State of the Art

Overboard System
Light

GPS/GSM

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Use Cases Industries (1)

Life saving
and survival

Fire detection and

smoke alarm systems

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Use Cases Industries (2)

Safe evacuation
and emergency
management
decision support

Search and Rescue

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Strong Hellenic Participation

Technical Coordination

Project Coordinator

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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

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