RescueMe Message

The first app that can send reliable messages from under the earth and rubble to rescuers. Even a child can send a message telling rescuers WHO they are and WHERE they are trapped. Create PaperMessages™ and carry them so you can send reliable messages when your phone or tablet is damaged in a disaster or if you do not have a smart phone.

As we know from driving through a tunnel, cell phones just don't work under the earth. For those trapped, what has worked is hammering on the rubble or making very loud noises to tell rescuers someone is alive. National earthquake rescue organizations use sensitive electronic equipment to listen for the sounds of hammering or other sounds from those trapped. If there is a path to the surface to supply fresh air, then there is a sound path for hammering on the rubble, shouts, whistle blasts and other loud sounds to be heard and counted at the surface.

This App uses NASA proven, forward error correction technology to send reliable messages to rescuers using the only available power, human power. There are no battery chargers under the rubble. Human power is the key to sending messages for 100 hours or more until rescued.

A RescueMe Message™ tells rescue teams WHO is trapped, WHERE they are trapped and WHAT is their condition. Specific data in the first hours after the disaster can speed up national planning and resource deployment by hours or even days for remote locations. The national rescue plan is improved with each passing hour as additional messages, directly from those trapped, are forwarded to rescue planning organizations.

RescueMe Message™ uses forward error correction technology to send reliable messages to rescuers. Redundant data is included in the sent message to correct or identify the most common errors and replace unreliable data with a “?”. Now, rescuers know which parts of a received message are not reliable and, when necessary, rescuers can wait for the message to be resent. Rescuers need to slowly and carefully move heavy and dangerous rubble to reach trapped students in a classroom. They need a reliable message to insure they know precisely WHERE the children are trapped so that they do not spend time digging to an incorrect location.

Features:
• Ten times faster messages than the previous RescueMePhone App that was downloaded in 70 countries.
• Built-in support to handle message text and FastForms™ data in all languages supported by phone or tablet, including Chinese, Japanese, Hindi and Spanish.
• Forward Error Correction technology that sends redundant data with the message that corrects or identifies the most common errors.
• RescueMe FastForm™ Messages efficiently send the data that national rescue organizations deem most important for planning rescue activities.
• RescueMe FastForms™ use DynamicChecklists™ so that national rescue organizations can easily add up to 4,000 new forms to new App versions.
• A trapped person can create a RescueMe PaperMessage™ before their phone battery dies so that they can continue sending their message to rescuers.
• Those without a phone can create their RescueMe PaperMessages™ in advance of being trapped and carry these RescueMe PaperMessages™ in their purse, wallet or school bag.
• RescueMe WebMessage™ is a free Internet based service to create RescueMe PaperMessages™ or to decode any RescueMe Message™ without downloading the App.
• If the Internet stops working after the disaster, messages received from those trapped can be decoded with this App. A phone or tablet with this App gives police stations the capability to decode messages after the disaster or create RescueMe PaperMessages™ before the disaster for those without a cell phone.
• Survivors of an earthquake or landslide who hear a message being sent can just write down the counts of each pulse group of the message. They then take the pulse counts to their local police station for decoding and transmittal to the national rescue organization.