Emergency Communications in ETSI

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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
Emergency Communications in ETSI
Presenter Adrian Scrase, ETSI VP IPP
Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) GSC-15
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SC EMTEL (Emergency Communications) Highlight of
Current Activities

• 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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SC EMTEL Strategic Direction

• 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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SC EMTEL 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
  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.
• next Steps/Actions
• 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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SC EMTEL Liaisons

• 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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TC SES SatEC(Satellite Emergency Communications)

• 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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TC TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio)

• One of ETSIs 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 acceptancein 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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PSPP MESA activities

• 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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PSPP MESA status

• 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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Mobile cellular, such as GSM/UMTS 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
• 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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TC ERM TG DMR (Digital Mobile Radio)

• 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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TC RRS (Reconfigurable Radio Systems)

• 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)
• Focuses on overall system design and terminal
  architecture for an RRS-based 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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Misconceptions about emergency communications

• 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 !