Tirol Avalanche Brigade Rocks!
The Austrian Tirol Avalanche Brigade isn't your typical outdoor guerilla response unit. These snowmen are equipped with dogs, TNT, seamless comms, arsenal, flight-for-life systems and super sophisticated early warning emergency alert systems supported by a sensor network of stations collecting and crunching data metrics like prevailing wind, snow depth, and variability to produce GIS-based prediction models for potential events. Their specially designed mobile phones that consume the models take punishment too. These were smashed to smithereens during standard ops in real elements.

Posted on Tue, December 4, 2007 at 3:34PM
by
Jonathan Spinney
in Devices, Safety and Security, Enterprise Mobility, Outdoor Mobility
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