Brian Fitzgibbons

So when the range would typically be 25 to 30 feet for Nancy's pacemaker,

he's gotten that nose to be bigger on the sniffer, where it's sniffing these signals up to 800 feet, which obviously makes the ability for this search to happen much greater.

In essence, what this technology, the advancements that's happened inside of this case that we've learned about, is they're able to amplify that signal, okay?

So with an antenna, they're able to look farther away

So typically these BLE devices like Nancy's pacemaker would only be communicating at 25 to 30 feet.

Now law enforcement has a range of more like six to 800 feet.

So that's going to make the possibility of locating Nancy much greater.

I believe that they had it strapped onto one of the skids on that helicopter, and he may be holding a device that's helping to see the location of these pings, these signals that they're getting.

But I'm pretty certain that they had affixed it to one of those skids.

Yeah, so this technology began as a pretty high-end defense technology.

And then they found with it a search and rescue application quite some time ago.

And then they began to use it in search and rescue scenarios, missing hikers, skiers, things like that, that they believed had devices.

So this was originally a cyber security tech used in the defense industry to find and locate any surreptitious devices that were emitting radio frequencies in or near.

Such as what?

This would be foreign national governments trying to listen in or capture information in or around Department of Defense or intelligence facilities.

And this tech would sniff that out.

Yeah, so there could be any number of things that these devices that are not allowed to be there could be doing.

And that technology, they found a greater application or new application for it in the search and rescue space that they could apply that same methodology in the same use case to go out and find devices associated with missing persons.

And that's where you've seen this tech implemented kind of in the mainstream is in search and rescue applications.

You know, you have the missing hiker, missing skier, missing persons that have devices on them.