Emergency Communications in ETSI SC EMTEL

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Emergency Communications in ETSI (SC EMTEL)
Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) 14

• Presenter Mike Sharpe, VP ETSI ESP
• Source Ken Mott, Chairman SC EMTEL

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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

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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.