Improved Search and Rescue with wrist-worn Personal Locator Beacons

Activities such as sailing or flying carry risks due to human error, mechanical failure or weather, with those affected often reliant on Search and Rescue efforts. SAT406M offers an innovation to increase their success.

In the 1980s, the international Cospas-Sarsat satellite system was set up to offer free, global Search and Rescue (SAR) services, helping people in distress, anytime and anywhere. The system, combines GPS technology, operated by the United States Airforce, with the European, Galileo and Russian, Glonass satellites. The distress signals which are picked up can be emitted by terminals onboard ships (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons - EPIRBs) and airplanes (Emergency locator transmitters - ELTs), or by devices carried by individuals (Personal Locator Beacons - PLBs).

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