Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) 14
DOCUMENT #:
GSC14-PLEN-028
FOR:
Presentation
SOURCE:
ETSI
AGENDA ITEM:
PLEN 6.2
CONTACT(S):
Ken Mott
Emergency Communications in
ETSI (SC EMTEL)
Presenter: Mike Sharpe, VP ETSI ESP
Source: Ken Mott, Chairman SC EMTEL
Geneva, 13-16 July 2009
Fostering worldwide interoperability
Highlight of Current Activities (1)
Study into unauthenticated and
unregistered access to the emergency
services (TR 102 758):
To help tackle the problem of emergency calls
made from handsets without a SIM card,
where the details of the caller are unavailable
As 3GPP and other groups (such as IETF) are
also working on this subject EMTEL will check if
additional work is still needed in this area
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Highlight of Current Activities (2)
Special Report on call forwarding and the
referral of emergency calls is being
compiled (SR 002 776):
In some countries, emergency calls have to be
redialled if more than one service is required
EMTEL is looking at ways in which the call can
be forwarded, to save crucial time and
increase efficiency
Special Report on test verification for
emergency calls (SR 002 777):
looking at the possibility of standardising
procedures
Geneva, 13-16 July 2009
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Highlight of Current Activities (3)
Revision of TS 102 182 on
“Requirements for communications
from authorities/organisations to the
citizens during emergencies”:
to add parameterisation of the requirements
and any additional requirements discovered
e.g. issue of message identifiers, European
view on warning systems
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Highlight of Current Activities (4)
EMTEL has regular liaisons with other
groups such as:
other ETSI TBs
3GPP groups
ITU-T
IETF-ECRIT
CoCom EGEA (Expert Group on Emergency
Access)
BAPCO (British Association of Public Safety
Communications Officers)
NENA, PSE (Public Safety Europe) Forum
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Strategic Direction
Particular efforts to involve the public
safety community more closely in its work
and in the standardisation process
generally:
Members of the Committee have made a
number of presentations at relevant
conferences
Enhancement of the current EMTEL website to
provide a forum for the publication of
documents, the dissemination of information
and for consultation among the wider public
safety community.
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Challenges
Improve promotion of EMTEL documents to
users and other groups (e.g. other TBs and 3GPP
groups, other SDOs, European projects)
Continuous effort to get users’ requirements from
public safety users (e.g. fire and rescue services,
ambulances, police, Public Safety Answering Point
(PSAP etc)) involved in the EMTEL work.
Promote global harmonisation of public safety
spectrum to enable cross border cooperation and
provision of broadband data and such spectrum
to be a publicly owned asset for public safety use
only.
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Next Steps/Actions
A small group in EMTEL will:
Identify how to better promote the EMTEL
work done up to now
Organise a promotional strategy plan for the
future
Ideas for that:
Review EMTEL web site
Hold regular workshops (not only to promote
EMTEL deliverables but also to involve more
users in the consultation process)
A Liaison Statement will be sent to ERM
regarding the future harmonisation and
broadband spectrum requirements.
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