A MAN working in a skyscraper has a heart attack and phones for help, but he fails to tell the emergency operator which floor he’s on. Paramedics then have to waste precious minutes searching the 40-storey building, and the man dies.
Researchers at the University of Toronto in Canada and chipmaker Intel have developed a system that they say could help prevent such deaths. Called Skyloc, it can estimate the location of callers inside high-rise buildings to within two floors. If used in New York’s 102-storey Empire State Building, it could cut the floor space that would have to…
