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Antalk
When a mountain accident occurs, it is difficult to identify climbers’ final position. Usually the search and rescue team can rely only on luck. ‘Antalk’ is an emergent GPS data exchange device concept for climbers. Before entering the mountain area, climbers are equipped with ‘Antalk’, a system that uses the ZigBee wireless protocol and the Global Positioning System. ‘Antalk’ automatically exchanges position and time data.
When the first climber arrives at a rest stop, ‘Antalk’ uploads the climber’s position and time data to the server together with the data of other climbers. If an accident occurs, the rescue team will know the position of the victims when they met with other climbers, just like ants talking to each other after eating, informing the others about the location of the food.
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Finding of the Jury:
We found the concept an interesting attempt to innovate in the field of interaction and communication. This idea of simulating ‘ant talk’ is quite different from conventional concepts applied in bionics, which tend to focus on material and engineering. The device functions automatically without monitoring or other intervention from users, thus lessening the risk of their forgetting to perform a specific action.
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