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“Safety, Rescue Innovations Gaining Momentum”
International Longwall News - June 6, 2006
“…Rescue and safety product developers from all over the
globe converged recently at the inaugural International
Mining Health and Safety Symposium, hosted by Wheeling
Jesuit University. Today, International Longwall News
continues its review of a sample of items in the areas of
communication, gas detection, and oxygen and fire
suppression.
Communication – Tracking
On the tracking front, DKL International was present with
its LifeGuard handheld unit. The unit, which has been used
for port security and border control as well as disaster and
wilderness searches, is also available for locating workers
in a mine rescue mission.
The 1.0 model, which resembles a gun, is designed to seek
out only living humans can pass through virtually any
obstacle and safely locates those trapped through passive
detection. The unit can operate in any environment, the
company said, and DKL's interface software was compatible
with Windows XP.”
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Japanese Regional Police Headquarters
Orders Additional DKL LifeGuard Systems
(Also Available as a PDF, 14 kbs)
Vienna, VA – September 30, 2004 – DKL
International, Inc., a leading provider of passive human
detection technology, announced that the Japanese Regional
Police Headquarters have ordered additional units of the DKL
LifeGuard™. After four years of successful testing and use in
Asia, including drills, LifeGuard’s reputation as a valuable
tool for border control, police work, and collapsed building
and avalanche rescue, is growing.
The Japan Rescue Association commented, “In
testing the LifeGuard we were very pleased with its
performance at our training facilities. It was able to detect
live humans within portions of collapsed buildings. We look
forward to continuing our relationship with DKL.”
Howard Sidman, DKL’s President and CEO,
commented, “The re-order of LifeGuard units by the Japanese
Regional Police is an significant order for DKL. The extensive
field testing in Japan and other Asian countries by our
dealers and their clients gives our customers consistent real
world experience on which to base their purchasing decisions.
The company continues to build a worldwide
dealer network to supply the military, security and
fire/rescue organizations for which the equipment was
developed. DKL employees are working to deliver backorders
numbering in the hundreds. Plans are currently underway to
leverage the company’s technology through partnerships with
additional domestic and international dealers and through
strategic relationships with major defense and security
providers.
About DKL International, Inc
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Who's Winning Business...Don't Be Still, My Beating Heart
VIENNA
VA Newswire, October 6, 2004-DKL International, Inc., developer of human detection
technology, has received additional orders for its LifeGuard
sensor from the Japanese Regional Police Headquarters for use
in border control, police work, and collapsed-building and
avalanche rescue. The sensor detects the electric field
created by a beating human heart. Tests by the Japanese
confirmed that the device could detect live humans within
portions of collapsed buildings.
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 Business
Brief:
D.C. as Host of IMF, World Bank Talks
Raises Questions
WashingtonPost.com
Monday, October 4, 2004; Page E02
VIRGINIA
DKL International of Vienna, a provider of human-detection
technology, said the Japanese Regional Police Headquarters has
ordered additional units of the DKL LifeGuard, a passive
electronic sensor that detects the electric field created by a
beating human heart. The company's products are designed to be
used in search-and-rescue operations or in military or police
operations to detect an adversary.
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Security Beat: Heartbeat Detector is Big
in Japan
National Defense Industrial Association, December, 2004 -
Despite less than glowing reviews from U.S. research labs, the
Japanese regional police force has purchased 100 passive
detectors that purport to detect the electric field created by
a beating human heart.
“Everyone looked at us like we were
loonies,” Howard Sidman, president of DKL International Inc.,
told National Defense.
The product, called LifeGuard, claims to
detect unique ultra low frequency fields generated by the
heartbeat, so that living humans can be found, company
officials said. The technology is touted as being able to
locate a standing adult from a distance of 500 meters in the
open, and at shorter distances through concrete walls, steel
bulkheads, heavy foliage or water.
Skeptics have called the device no better
than a dowsing stick, and during 1998 trials at Sandia
National Labs the detectors failed in controlled tests.
Government researchers said the device operated no better than
random chance when it came to finding people in boxes.
Dozens of LifeGuard units have been
purchased for border control, police work, and collapsed
building and avalanche rescue in Belgium, France and Italy, he
said.
The next step, Sidman said, is selling
Lifeguard to the U.S. government. “We have some interest in
the Defense Department and some other agencies,” he said,
adding that negotiations were pending. “It's a tough sell,” he
conceded.
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