LAS VEGAS, NV — TrueNorth Rescue, Inc. has announced a distribution partnership with Elektronik Lab Private Limited to provide its Polaris IRDF search and rescue units to India and neighboring countries. Established in 2005, Elektronik Lab specializes in offering customers communication, navigation and surveillance equipment.
“The addition of the Polaris line of radio direction finders to Elektronik Lab’s portfolio allows us to provide our customers, which include India’s Ministry of Defense & 7 other key paramilitary forces, the world’s best technology related to search and rescue,” says Nanda Kumar, Elektronik Lab’s CEO. “Since we provide communications, navigation & surveillance solutions on land, in the air and at sea, the Polaris units that track radio signals so uniquely and accurately make it an essential part of our product offering.”
The Polaris Intelligent Radio Direction Finders for land, aviation and maritime combine the most advanced applications of GPS and signal processing with unprecedented frequency agility and mobility to geolocate 406 MHz emergency frequencies with up to four times greater accuracy and speed to recovery of activated emergency beacons. The Polaris was recently used to save a lost hiker’s life (https://wlos.com/news/local/new-device-helps-first-repsonders-better-pinpoint-anyone-in-distress) and can be used to locate downed aircraft and lost boats as well.