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PSU faculty to develop new technology for disaster rescue efforts
Rescuing earthquake survivors from collapsed structures is a slow and difficult task. Professor Suresh Singh and his team at PSU's College of Engineering and Computer Science are employing ground-breaking technology that may someday save lives: a network of tiny sensors embedded within buildings which comes alive when the building collapses, sending a three-dimensional view of the ruin to the surface that enables rescuers to locate survivors and detect the structural integrity of their surroundings-time-consuming tasks that often are the difference between life and death. The "Rescue.net" project is being funded through a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
