This was something really cool I came across today.  It’s a new software system on your handheld that will display 3 dimensions where a particular person s in a larger building.  It’s called BEAM 3-D, if you recall the name from famous Hollywood films such as Enemy of the State and Mission Impossible television series.  

BEAM was developed by the two students Taaning Malik and Claus Nielsen, in a project at the Engineering College of Aarhus. 

The ideal use of the system would be for use in an actual fire where the leader always efforts to monitor, on which floor and  room the burning is happening. 
3D program BEAM show windows, doors, ceilings and walls. It works by the supervised person carries a sensor in the form of a small green box, which communicates wirelessly with the handheld device outside the building, thus showing the person’s position. 

The program requires access to digital drawings of the building in order to work.Here it is, according to two students a great advantage that it is digital drawings of the newer public buildings in Denmark using a common standard and therefore can be imported into the handheld computer.  The system can immediately read the drawings of most public buildings in this country and it increases the potential. Besides the fire potential is high for example, police and military, both of which may have an interest in being able to locate a person in real time in a given building, says the 23-year-old Claus Nielsen. 

The students have developed software system in cooperation with the software company Systematic, based in Aarhus. Here is project manager Per Leth Jensen extremely pleased with the students’ efforts, and he expects the company to work with BEAM.  There are huge amounts of data in the game when it comes to three-dimensional drawings of buildings, and here the students made great efforts to solve the technical challenges, says Per Leth Jensen. 

We would love to see something like this launch for BlackBerry devices.  Will it be done?  I think it would be the smartest route to take when picking which handhelds will get it.  Sure when we think about it we think of Windows Mobile devices and slim chances for Symbian devices such as Nokia and Sony Ericsson.  Maybe we’re all out of the league and this BEAM 3-D will only be for small handheld computers such as the famous OQO smallest pocket laptop.  It’s another one of those “let’s wait and see”

Source: MobileTopSoft

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