Patent ID: 7377835

Claim:
A method of communicating positional data from a personal communication system carried by a firefighter to a remote location, the method comprising: providing first and second personal communication systems (PCS) that each include at least a positional data gathering device and a wireless transceiver; gathering, via the positional data gathering device in the first PCS, positional data indicative of the physical location of the first PCS; broadcasting the positional data over a mesh network from the wireless transceiver of the first PCS; and receiving the positional data at the second PCS and rebroadcasting the positional data from the second PCS over the mesh network, wherein the first PCS obtains at least one of PASS and SCBA data associated with at least one of a PASS system and a SCBA system carried by a corresponding firefighter, the first PCS broadcasting and the second PCS rebroadcasting the at least one of PASS and SCBA data.