French former minister Nicole Guedj took the initiative and request french hi-tech entreprises and institutions to put their skills together to create an innovative telecommunication tool for humanitarian aid actions.

The result: Emergesat, a humanitarian aid tool.

This Air freight container is about 400 kgs and installed with various telecommunication systems such a and a & Access Point for land communications. A high speed satellite link provides data & voice telecommunication with remote services and decisional centers. Earth observation and GPS positioning system are also available.

A server shares all informations needed by all organisations but also provides private disk space for induvidual access per organisations using Emergesat.

A software suite is also part of the project such: Victim Management, Epidimiology, Video Conference, Request & Offer (aid request), Request & Offer (map & geolocation). Support services such Mapping, linguistic, meteorological, etc..as well as Health services can be reached using Emergesat systems.

A photo gallery is available on the Emergesat website as well as technical informations.
Click here for a larger diagram of the telecommunication flow.

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