Tracking system wins top award

Technology that could help save lives in fires, and that makes it harder to get lost at trade shows, has earned researchers at Cork Institute of Technology a major international prize.

Their radio localisation and tracking system was judged to be the most accurate of its type at CPSWeek in Berlin, where the systems submitted by eight other competitors proved less flexible and more expensive.

As well as securing a gold medal in its category, the work of CIT’s Nimbus Centre for Embedded Systems Research was also awarded the second overall prize at the event.