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Title : Indoor Location Mechanisms for Emergency Services
Authors : Roger Marshall
Marc Linsner
Dorothy Stanley
Filename : draft-marshall-ecrit-indoor-location-00.txt
Pages : 18
Date : 2015-03-01
Abstract:
The application of summoning emergency assistance by using a phone to
call 9-1-1 in North America has been ingrained in society for 40+
years. A successful emergency response to a caller in need, is
dependent upon the responders receiving accurate location information
to effect timely action. Traditional wireline telephony is able to
utilize the location of the physical wires as a source of information
for caller location, whereas wireless technologies require more
exotic mechanisms to locate a 9-1-1 caller.
Mechanisms for locating a cellular caller dialing 9-1-1 is based on
20 year old technology, which was designed for outdoor environments,
and does not perform sufficiently when used to locate an emergency
caller from within a home or office building environment.
With growing trends in mobile cellular usage, large portions of
subscribers are relying solely on their mobile phones to make
emergency calls. Emergency response time suffers when that caller is
located indoors.
This document defines the problem statement and solutions for
expanding the current set of methods used to locate a cellular caller
to 9-1-1. The expansion of the methods includes connections to
services that are outside the normal administrative domain of the
cellular provider, hence both the privacy and security aspects of
connecting these systems are taken into consideration.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-marshall-ecrit-indoor-location/
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