The TRX Sentrix Tracking System promises to be the first self-contained system that tracks personnel both indoors and outdoors with the required precision. The Sentrix System provides incident commanders with crucial information regarding each personnel's situational and positional information, providing a vital tool for decision making. Sentrix is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute (MFRI), the Technology Support Working Group (TSWG), and the US Army.
Key Sentrix features include:
Location and Tracks: The location of tracked personnel and the path each person took to get to their current location.
Level Information: Elevation information includes the floor level of all personnel within an unknown multi-story building.
Poise and Gate: Motion classification algorithms continously monitor and analyze the movement of personnel being tracked to identify motions such as walking, running, crawling, traversing stairs and elevators, motionless, or on back.
Mapping: Navigation in buildings can be enhanced by existing floor plans. Conversely, in their absence, floor plans or maps can be generated by teams as they traverse a building or structure.
User Interface: An intuitive and thoughtful user interface provides a complete tactical assessment of team deployment within an area at a glance.
The Sentrix system also supports flexible integration with third party sensors. With the addition of medical sensors such as heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature, biological measurements may be incorporated into the messaging structure to provide health status along with location. Chemical, biological, and radiation sensors may be integrated to deliver tracking information with such sensor data, enhancing detection accuracy and improving response times.
A video of the TRX Sentrix System tracking two people in a 16 story building is available at this link.