ENVIRONMENTAL ALERTS – EU
February 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTECHNOLOGY enabling local authorities to issue targeted alerts about impending air pollution or other environmental problems will be presented to a global telecommunications summit this November. The UN meeting in Tunisia will learn of the European Union (EU)-funded Air Pollution Network for Early warning and on-line information Exchange (APNEE) project, which could also, its developers say, warn citizens about oncoming disasters, such as storms and tidal waves. The system enables mobile telephone, Blackberry, PC and other technologies to receive ...
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