GPS locator system is highly complicated

by Telegram - November 30, 2008 11:10pm

In a recent letter to the editor from Millbury (Telegram & Gazette, Nov. 24), the writer wondered why WPI received funds for “a firefighter locater system,” when he had told the former fire chief days after the tragic fire that he had “sent him the GPS type system idea” for fighting fires. The letter writer continued on to lament the waste of time and money spent on the development of a system by WPI researchers.