Emergency Communications in ETSI

1. Emergency Communications in ETSI Presenter: Chantal Bonardi ETSI Secretariat Technical Officer

2. 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

3. 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 groups:3GPP (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))

4. 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.

5. 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) 5

6. 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.  

7. Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TC TETRA) • TETRA is one of ETSI’s 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

8. 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

9. 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).

10. 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

11. 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.

12. 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).

13. 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.

14. GSC Task Force on Emergency Communications The Task Force was set up at GSC#16 ETSI has coordinated the GSC Task Force on Emergency Communications and all GSC SDOs have participated An output report is delivered at GSC#17 A presentation will be provided during the GSC#17 Task Force session (agenda item 7.4)