DOCUMENT #: GSC15-PLEN-20
FOR: Presentation
SOURCE: ETSI
AGENDA ITEM: PLEN 6.2
CONTACT(S): Chantal Bonardi, ETSI Secretariat
Jean-Pierre Henninot, TC EMTEL Chair
Jean-Jacques Bloch, TC SES Chair

 Revision of existing deliverables:
• Use of SMS complementing an emergency call (TR 102 180)
• Use of Cell Broadcast Services (TR 102 182)
 Development of new deliverables:
• Application of Cell broadcast services (draft TR 102 900)
 In conjunction with an EU-Alert project
 Significant collaboration with 3GPP
 To take place with CMAS (US) and ETWS (Japan) specification
• Testing the performance of the emergency call service
 Published in July 2010
(SR 002 777)
 Establishing closer ties with EU
• Contribution to the Expert Group on Emergency Access
 In summary, a significant activity in 2010
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 Maintain the momentum of activity based on a combined participation of vendors, operators and emergency services representatives
 Develop requirements based on service and functional description
 Be an observatory of work performed in various groups:
• 3GPP (SA1, CT1)
• NENA (north America) and EENA (Europe)
• PSCE forum
• IETF and ECRIT (issues linked with localisation information)
• ITU-T (SG2)
 Promote the activity and recognition of EMTEL
• Through pragmatic actions (conferences, website)
• Initiatives (e.g. contact with EGEA)
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 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 through more 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 needs and provision of dedicated spectrum capacity for public safety use only.
 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
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• 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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 Early warning systems
• WG-SatEC is developing a protocol allowing the transport/distribution of polymorph alert messages over satellite links
 Easily Deployable Emergency Communication Cells
• WG-SatEC is studying the characteristics and requirements for easily deployable communication cells providing seamless backhauling and interconnection of terrestrial networks via satellite
 Key to successful emergency communications = common data formats + interoperable systems + common spectrum
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 One of ETSI’s success stories
 TC TETRA has overall responsibility within ETSI for the development and maintenance of standards for TETRA and further evolutions thereof
 TETRA is a standard defined to meet the needs of the most demanding professional mobile radio users
 TETRA has reached a great acceptance in the world and is widely established (117 countries)
 Challenges
 Additional spectrum requirements for future TETRA systems
(TR 102 628 to be published shortly)
 Inter-System Interface (ISI cross boarder communication)
Note: support for these activities received from Police Cooperation
WG (within Europe)
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 International Public Safety Partnership Project between ETSI (Europe) and TIA (North America)
 Produce globally applicable technical specifications for an integrated and innovative digital mobile broadband “System of Systems” for public protection and disaster response sectors
 For a better coordination of national and international responses to manage emergencies, disasters, planned events and day-by-day monitoring
 MESA system is based on existing technologies such as TETRA
 Transmission and reception of voice, video, high speed data
 MESA Statement of requirements (SoR) - TS 170 001
• a profile of the operational and functional requirements of aeronautical and terrestrial-based digital, wireless, broadband systems
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 MESA has achieved its goal ...... and is about to close !
 Today different goals in North America and in Europe
• Effort of US Federal Government, the private sector, and Public
Safety to use newly allocated 700 MHz spectrum for the creation of a nationwide Public Safety and public broadband service
• North American Public Safety community chose to adopt LTE as their technology of choice for the future
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 eCall project initiated as WG of the eSafety Forum
 eCall aims at issuing an automated call to emergency services, including data
• To reduce response time of emergency services
 Standards developed in CEN, 3GPP and ETSI
• Content and format of the Minimum Set of Data (MSD). MSD generated by the vehicle to the PSAP at eCall establishment.
MSD defined in CEN/TS 15722
• Transport protocol to send the MSD from the In Vehicle System (IVS) to the PSAP, via the GSM/UTS network, defined in 3GPP
 “eCall Data Transfer – In-band modem solution”
• Initial Test cases on system done by 3GPP
• Currently completion of broader tests by STF 399 related to ETSI TC MSG
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 ETSI standard defining a direct digital replacement for analogue PMR
• TS 102 361-x first published in March 2005
 DMR standard produced in TC ERM (EMC and Radio spectrum
Matters) TGDMR
 DMR has the capability to serve:
• Consumer and short-range industrial
• Professional / Business-Critical applications
• Public Safety / Mission-Critical applications
(Tier 3: licensed trunking)
 The technology promises improved range, higher data rates, more efficient use of spectrum, and improved battery
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 Today the shortage of suitable radio spectrum is the major hurdle for the rollout of reliable high speed data networks for Public Safety organizations.
 Traditionally spectrum allocation is made on a static basis.
In the future, spectrum allocation may be based on a flexible basis.
 RRS technology may be an enabler for a flexible approach to spectrum allocation
 TC RRS WG4 on Public Safety has recently published a TR on System
Aspects for Public Safety (TR 102 733)
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Focuses on overall system design and terminal architecture for an RRSbased Public Safety communication infrastructure
• Feasibility study to cope with current situation of heterogeneous set of networks and ICT systems among Public Safety community
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 Emergency telecommunications are only about supporting disaster response
• Wrong : mitigation, preparedness and relief are equally important.
 Emergency telecommunications are only of interest during major disasters
• Wrong : in addition daily emergencies (e.g. EMS) and disasters must be supported by the same systems
 emergency telecomms solutions are mostly a technology issue just like standard telecoms networks
 Wrong : they are mostly user driven and the major blocking issues are political and economic, not technical.
 The higher the throughput, the better !
• Wrong : 56 kbit/s now is better than 512 kbit/s in one hour !
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