Firms design hi-tech search and rescue backpack after joining forces at networking event

Two firms based at a North West tech campus have joined forces to design a backpack to be used in search and rescue missions.

Teams from Revector and 4D Products, based at Sci-Tech Daresbury, met at a business networking event — and realised they could bring their tech together to help in rescue work in Vietnam.

Revector, whose team has worked in telecoms and security for 20 years, had developed a phone tracking device to attract and monitor the signal of a missing person’s mobile device and narrow down the location to a 20-metre radius.

That device could help to locate people much more quickly in areas of Vietnam and South East Asia that are packed with dense vegetation with no buildings or reference points

Revector then needed a product design and development firm to develop a cradle to carry the 10kg signal tracking unit and its long antenna.

And at a business networking event at Sci-Tech Daresbury they met the team from neighbouring 4D Products – which has now design