Dai Nippon Printing, Others Develop Traceability System for People Injured in Large-scale Disasters.

Tokyo, Japan, Dec 16, 2005 - (JCN) - Dai Nippon Printing has developed a traceability system for accurate control of injured people in case of large-scale disasters in collaboration with Fuji Tokoha University Associate Professor Takashi Komura and CATENA.

The newly-developed system uses special triage tags with a two-dimensional code and a digital pen provided by Swedish high-tech company Anoto AB. By tracing pen trajectories written on a triage tag with the digital pen, the system stores handwritten information on injured people in an embedded memory of the pen. Then, the digitized data is transmitted to and registered in a server via a PC, allowing information on injured people to be shared among those who are in relief operations over the Internet.

Further, by scanning the two-dimensional code on the tag with a camera phone, the actual location and conditions of an injured person can be provided.

On December 15, the three partners jointly conduted a verification test of the system at the National Disaster Medical Center in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Based on the findings from the verification test, Associate Professor Komura will make a presentation on the practicality of the system at the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Disaster Medicine scheduled in February.

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