CBC:Computer science professor Alex Ferworn of Ryerson University received this year's Community IT Hero Award for developing a device that gives search and rescue teams a dog's-eye view of the path to a trapped victim, the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) announced Wednesday.
Using the Canine Augmentation Technology (CAT), human rescuers can monitor sound and video beamed wirelessly from cameras and microphones worn by the dogs as they search through the jumbled remains of buildings levelled by fires or earthquakes.
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