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Emergency Calling and Alerting Other Public Safety Activities
Our Emergency Telecommunications committee (SC EMTEL) Our Satellite Earth Stations and Systems committee
completed its work on Advanced Mobile Location (AML) and (TC SES) develops standards for satellite communications in
a TR was published in March. AML is a system transmitting a emergency situations.
caller’s location to the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)
during an emergency call, allowing emergency workers to In the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP™) we
locate the caller with accuracy as close as 5 metres. This is a are helping to develop the use of LTE for mission-critical
significant improvement on the current cell ID localisation, communications. In 2016 the first set of 3GPP mission-critical
and several handset manufacturers deployed AML in 2016. specifications was completed, covering voice communication
(Push-to-Talk – PTT). New work was started on mission-
The work initiated early in 2015 on Total Conversation critical video and data communications.
– a three-way emergency video call between a caller, a
PSAP and a sign language interpreter – was completed We are also creating standards for maritime safety
with the publication of a TR which provides guidelines for equipment, avalanche beacons, and various mechanisms for
implementation and use. road safety through the use of Intelligent Transport Systems.
We published a TR which describes the rules and procedures
to implement public warnings, making use of pre-defined
libraries that enable the simple and systematic multi-
language and multi-mode presentation of warning messages
in any European country. We then initiated new work aimed
at developing a TS for alerting libraries and a TR outlining
implementation guidelines.
In co-operation with the European Emergency Number
Association (EENA), we organised the first Next Generation
112 (NG112) Emergency Communications Plugtests™ event
in Europe, which was held in March in Sophia Antipolis,
France. NG112 offers a potential solution to the increasing
requirements and demands of content-rich emergency
calling.
Following this event, we began new work on networks
dedicated to emergency services. We began preparing a
TS which will provide the requirements, the functional
architecture, the protocol and the procedures for
implementing the Pan-European Mobile Emergency
Application (PEMEA). There are presently hundreds of
emergency calling applications in use across Europe but
their use is constrained to the boundaries of the PSAP with
which they are integrated. This TS will make it possible for
data to arrive at the most appropriate PSAP, wherever the
call is made. A second TS will describe the core elements
and corresponding technical interfaces for network
independent access to emergency services, and our work
will be completed with a TR describing the test cases and
scenarios for interoperability testing of the core elements for
independent access networks.

Work in response to European Commission Mandate M/493 In September, in co-operation with the European
on the location enhanced emergency call service progressed Conference of Postal and Telecommunications
well in 2016 with the development of protocol specifications Administrations Electronic Communications
applicable to the interfaces of the functional architecture for Committee (CEPT ECC), we organised a workshop
emergency caller location. This service is intended to cover entitled ‘Public Protection and Disaster Relief:
a situation where different service providers and network Regulatory changes and new opportunities for
operators need to co-operate to determine the location of an broadband PPDR’.
emergency caller.
The event provided a platform for interested parties
We completed a TS on conformance and interoperability to discuss recent developments and identify future
testing for eCall, the in-vehicle emergency call service which activities in relation to standardisation, national
automatically relays data about an accident from the vehicle implementation and regulation.
involved to the emergency services.

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