Emergency Communications in ETSI

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Emergency Communications in ETSI
Document No GSC16-PLEN-07
Source ETSI
Contact Adrian Scrase Sources Chantal Bonardi (ETSI Secretariat), Jean-Pierre Henninot (TC EMTEL Chair), Jean-Jacques Bloch, (TC SES Chair), Brian Murgatroyd (TC TETRA Chair)
GSC Session PLEN
Agenda Item 6.2

• Presenter Adrian Scrase
• VP ETSI IPP(International Partnership Projects)

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Requirements for Emergency Communications (SC
EMTEL) (1)

• Development of a deliverable on Total
  Conversation Access to Emergency Services (draft
  TS 103 170)
• Total Conversation, as defined in ITU-T F.703, is
  a combination of three media in a conversational
  call video, real-time text and audio
• Draft will define precise conditions for using
  Total conversation for emergency services and
  make access of emergency services possible to
  people with disabilities
• Draft will mainly address the PSAP organisations
  and potential impact on overall organisations of
  emergency services
• Due considerations of present ongoing
  standardisation work e.g. 3GPP-NOVES
• Involvement in answer to Mandate M/493 with other
  ETSI TBs
• Mandate in support of location enhanced emergency
  call service
• Establishing closer ties with EU
• Contribution to the Expert Group on Emergency
  Access

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Requirements for Emergency Communications (SC
EMTEL) (2)

• Strategic direction
• Maintain 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
  groups3GPP (SA1, CT1), NENA, EENA, PSCE Forum,
  IETF-ECRIT, ITU-T (SG2)
• Promote activity and recognition of EMTEL
• Through pragmatic actions (conference, website)
• Initiatives (e.g. contact with COCOM EGEA)

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Requirements for Emergency Communications (SC
EMTEL) (3)

• Challenges
• Improve promotion of EMTEL documents to users and
  other groups (e.g. ETSI TBs and 3GPP groups,
  other SDOs, European projects).
• Continuous effort to get users requirements
  through public safety users (e.g. fire and rescue
  services, ambulances, police, Public Safety
  Answering Point (PSAP) involved in EMTEL work.
• Promote global harmonisation of public safety
  spectrum needs and provision of dedicated
  spectrum capacity for public safety use only.

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Satellite Emergency Communications (TC SES SatEC)

• 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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Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TC TETRA)

• TETRA is one of ETSIs success stories and has
  reached great acceptance in the world and is
  widely established (117 countries)
• TETRA is a standard defined to meet needs of most
  demanding professional mobile radio users
• Achievements
• Narrowband (TETRA release 1) and Wideband (TETRA
  release 2) are complete and both are in use
• Challenges
• Broadband TETRA services are about to be
  developed to meet new user requirements
• Inter System Interface development still needs
  further definition
• Study and standards development to extend TETRA
  into high band VHF

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Digital Mobile radio (TC ERM TG DMR)

• DMR has 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
• ETSI standard on DMR systems (TS 102 361 serie)
  defining direct digital replacement for analogue
  PMR
• Currently being revised

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Reconfigurable Radio systems(TC RRS)

• Today Public Safety communication suffers from
  two different issues
• Spectrum scarcity hampering the development of
  high bit rate applications which could be of
  great help during an emergency crisis
• Heterogeneous wireless communication systems not
  compatible with each other
• RRS technology may help resolving these two
  issues
• SDR can mitigate the interoperability issue
• Dynamic Spectrum Allocation (DSA) and Cognitive
  Radio (CR) can improve the efficient use of the
  available spectrum enabling the spectrum sharing
• TC RRS WG4 on Public Safety
• Has recently published a TR on business and cost
  consideration of SDR and CR in PS domain (TR 103
  064)
• Is currently defining the use cases for spectrum
  and network usage among public safety, commercial
  or military domain (TR 102 970).
• Both TRs refer to Spectrum sharing, Service Level
  Agreements (SLAs) and pre-emption

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Mobile cellular with eCall

• 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
• CEN has defined the content and format of the MSD
  (Minimum Set of Data) in CEN/TS 15722. The MSD is
  generated by the vehicle to the PSAP at eCall
  establishment.
• 3GPP has defined the transport protocol to send
  the MSD from the In Vehicle System (IVS) to the
  PSAP, via the GSM/UTS network, defined in 3GPP.
  See eCall Data Transfer In-band modem
  solution
• ETSI (TC MSG, STF 399) and 3GPP have defined the
  test cases. End-to-end cases are now being
  conducted by CEN (CEN 1502).
• Recent decisions
• Type approval for new types of car will include
  eCall from 1st January 2015.
• ETSI TC MSG reminded to the ECC that eCall has
  been defined to operate on dual mode GSM/UMTS
  devices (and not only on GSM, as being currently
  considered by car manufacturers)