Emergency Communications in ETSI

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Emergency Communications in ETSI
Document No GSC17-PLEN-07
Source ETSI
Contact Chantal Bonardi 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 Chantal Bonardi
• ETSI Secretariat Technical Officer

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Requirements for Emergency Communications (SC
EMTEL) (1)

• Development of a specification on Total
  Conversation Access to Emergency Services (draft
  TS 101 470)
• 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
• The specification will define precise conditions
  for using Total conversation for emergency
  services and make access of emergency services
  possible to people with disabilities
• The specification will mainly address the PSAP
  organisations and potential impact on overall
  organisations of emergency services
• Due considerations of present ongoing
  standardisation work e.g. in 3GPP
• Current revision of the report on European
  regulatory texts and orientations (TR 102 299) to
  include new regulation
• Involvement in the answer to the European Mandate
  in support of location enhanced emergency call
  service (M/493) with other ETSI TBs

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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 Expert Group
  on Emergency Access (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)
(1)

• Technical reports already published
• Overview of satcom added value in disaster
  management
• - Overview of concepts, systems and initiatives
  related to the use of space resources in the
  context of disaster management (ETSI TR 102 641)
• Emergency Communication Cell over Satellite
• - Characteristics and requirements for easily
  deployable communication cells providing seamless
  backhauling and interconnection of terrestrial
  networks via satellite (ETSI TR 103 166)

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Satellite Emergency Communications (TC SES SatEC)
(2)

• Ongoing work
• - establish a formal categorization of Emergency
  Communication Cell over Satellite (ECCS) systems
  based on
• communication capabilities,
• environmental robustness,
• mobility (on the move, on the pause, on the
  stop),
• energy consumption
• physical characteristics.
• This work should assist the various stakeholders
  in the procurement of communications systems with
  ECCS capabilities by providing them with a formal
  framework for expressing their requirements.  

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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 (about 120 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
• Standard further developed to extend to the VHF
  band

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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 series)
  defining direct digital replacement for analogue
  PMR
• Currently being revised

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Maritime(TC ERM TG26)

• The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System
  (GMDSS) is an integrated communications system
  using satellite and terrestrial
  radiocommunications to ensure that no matter
  where a ship is in distress, aid can be
  dispatched.
• Digital Selective Calling (DSC) is a service
  allowing to instantly send an automatically
  formatted distress alert to the Coast Guard or
  other rescue authority via the MF, HF and VHF
  maritime radio systems and it is part of the
  GMDSS.
• ETSI TC ERM TG26 is involved in a number of
  activities related to GMDSS and DSC in particular
  (such as EN 301 025 series and EN 302 885
  series). This group has also produced a set of
  Interoperability Testing specifications for DSC
  (TS 101 570 series).

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Reconfigurable Radio systems(TC RRS) (1)

• 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 use cases for
  spectrum and network usage among public safety,
  commercial or military domain based on RRS
  technology(TR 102 970). This TR refers to
  Spectrum sharing, Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
  and pre-emption

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Reconfigurable Radio systems(TC RRS) (2)

• Mandate M/512 on Reconfigurable Radio System
  Objective C proposes to explore potential areas
  of synergy among commercial, civil security and
  military applications about synergies between
  commercial and public safety, synergies between
  public safety and military and synergies between
  commercial and military (if any).
• TC RRS WG4 is leading the answer to this mandate.

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Mobile cellular with eCall (1)

• eCall project a joint initiative of the EC,
  industry and other stakeholders, initiated as a
  working group of the Safety Forum
• eCall aims at issuing an automated call based on
  112 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 (EN 5722). 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
  (3GPP TS 26.267, 3GPP TS 26.268, 3GPP TS 26.269
  and 3GPP TR 26.969).
• ETSI (TC MSG, STF 399) and 3GPP have defined the
  test cases (ETSI TS 102 936-1, ETSI TS 102 936-2
  and ETSI TR 102 937). End-to-end cases have been
  conducted by CEN (CEN 1502).

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Mobile cellular with eCall (2)

• Type approval for new types of car will include
  eCall from 1st October 2015
• Next generation eCall
• eCall was designed to work on circuit switched,
  with GSM and UMTS, but LTE is packet only
• So ETSI TC MSG is going to work on the migration
  of eCall transport to IMS based networks with a
  Specialist Task Force (STF) 456. The output will
  be a Technical Report planned to be published in
  2013.

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GSC Task Force on Emergency Communications

• The Task Force was set up at GSC16
• ETSI has coordinated the GSC Task Force on
  Emergency Communications and all GSC SDOs have
  participated
• An output report is delivered at GSC17
• A presentation will be provided during the GSC17
  Task Force session (agenda item 7.4)