Chest Sensor Produces Instant Floor Plans for Emergency Personnel

Researchers atMIT have chance yet another usefor Microsoft ’s Kinect sensor . They ’ve stripped it down , flip on a advanced laser rangefinder , added wireless functionality , and turn it into a wearable sensor that will automatically map the interior of a construction as the wearer move through it .

The most obvious use of the technology is as a way for Google ’s mapping team to at long last provide elaborate schematic drawing for every home in the country . But MIT sees it as more of a valuable pecker for emergency respondent . In a HAZMAT situation one person could work as a sentinel , explore a structure for problems and denote areas of business concern using a manual trigger that lets them leave behind annotation .

The map of the building ’s interior is generated on the fly sheet and sent to a remote laptop where it can be contemplate by other responders who will then know exactly where they involve to go . The sensing element rig also continually photographs the wearer ’s surroundings so there are extra ocular cues that help others find their way around , but also aid the single-valued function software mechanically recognize an area the wearer ’s been to before . If the engineering ever becomes an actual product let ’s hope that MIT makes it available to the fair consumer , as it also seems like the perfect putz for parent ’s who want to voyage the ever - modify layout of a teenager ’s dingy bedroom .