Grant: Alliance Grants

Emergency Radio Communication Enhancement System (ERCES) provides full radio communication access inside a building to first responders for their handheld communication devices. ERCES is an essential life safety communications tool enabling first responders to communicate in and around buildings during an emergency. It can be broadly categorized as: ARC (Auxiliary Radio Communication) System and BDA (Bi-directional Amplifier) System. The overall goals of the Mircom-Ryerson partnership are to advance localization technique and radio frequency (RF) propagation models for the distribution of antennae and sensors in buildings to provide RF coverage for communications. The proposed localization techniques and RF propagation models represents a novel method that is expected to generate new technical know-how that will become proprietary to Mircom, in addition to advancing the field in signal processing in networks and Internet of things (IoT). The outcomes and technical knowledge gained will address current challenges with localization technique or RF propagation models for ERCES. The outcomes of the project will be incorporated by Mircom and take them to the next stage of development of ERCES.