Precarpathian rescuers presented GRS monitoring system to improve tourist safety
In Ivano-Frankivsk region on the basis of the Special Emergency and Rescue Squad, a presentation of the implementation of a large infrastructure project - “Improving the level of safety and protection of the population in the cross-border region by strengthening joint measures for preparation and cooperation in the field of emergency management — BRIDGE, carried out within the framework of Joint Operational Programme Romania-Ukraine 2014-2020.
In his speech, the Head of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Ivano-Frankivsk region Volodymyr Chernetsky noted that this project consists of 3 stages, in particular, in order to prevent injuries and death of tourists, as well as to search for them on the basis of the latest telecommunication and information technologies, a GPS monitoring system has been created for the widow Improving the safety of tourists. This system provides for increasing the level of safety in mountain tourism and improving the system of unit management when organizing search and rescue activities, namely:
- monitoring the movement of independent tourists and tourist groups traveling through mountainous areas;
- improvement of the unit management system in the organization of search and rescue activities in mountainous areas through real-time tracking of the current location of search and rescue teams and their routes of movement;
- implementation of an automated process of receiving and processing emergency reports from tourists and tourist groups.
Deputy Head of the Department — Head of the Department of Organization of Fire and Rescue Works of the Department of the Organization of Fire and Rescue Works, Service and Training of Units of the Operational Rescue Service of Civil Protection of the Department of Emergency Response Vladislav Kovgan noted the importance and expediency of implementing such a project because the safety of life is a priority area of the service of the State Emergency Service.
Taras Brinda, Head of the 4th Specialized Search and Rescue Group of the Specialized Search and Rescue Department of ARZ SP of the Main Department of State Emergency Services in Ivano-Frankivsk region, told more details about the GRS monitoring system. The GRS monitoring system for improving the safety of tourists is an innovative GRS monitoring system, the primary task of which is to provide access to information about the location of tourist and search and rescue teams and to the distress signals sent by tourist groups (tourists) for assistance, which is very important in mountainous terrain in the absence of coverage mobile operators. The purpose of the implementation of the GRS monitoring system to improve the safety of tourists is to increase the level of safety in mountain tourism, namely: monitoring the movement of independent tourists and tourist groups traveling through mountainous terrain; improving the unit management system when organizing search and rescue activities in mountainous areas through real-time tracking the current location of the search and rescue teams and their routes of movement.
The GRS monitoring system for improving the safety of tourists consists of a hardware-software complex of operational management of forces and means; an automated system for receiving and processing emergency reports from tourists; an automated system for registering tourist groups and a mobile application on Android and iOS “Rescue in the Mountains”.
The mobile application “Rescue in the Mountains” is designed to transmit “SOS” signals with geographical coordinates in the event of emergency events in the mountainous area. The functionality of this application allows verified users when they get into difficult situations in mountainous terrain with one click to send emergency messages to the mountain search and rescue service with the exact coordinates of the scene.
This relationship is currently working in test mode and is available on the website of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Ivano-Frankivsk region in the section “registration of tourist groups”, and in a few days it will be available for download from the Play Market.
Press service of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Ivano-Frankivsk region
