Next Generation 9-1-1 Networks are real, and happening here as well as NG1-1-2 networks in the EU. Detailed situational awareness from the enterprise is ready to feed these new networks with additional data that they have never before seen. Public Safety solutions at the PSAP need to understand the value this new data stream will provide, and those providing technology need to embrace it.
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NG9-1-1: How New Tech Gets Us There Faster
1. NG9-1-1 Next Generation
Emergency Services
Where WE need to go . . .
And how WE get there
Mark J. Fletcher, ENP (Fletch)
Chief Architect – Worldwide Public Safety Solutions
FletcherM@Avaya.com +1 908 848-2602
Twitter: @Fletch911
2. Past 5
Years
INFLECTION
POINT
Emergency Services Technology
45 Years of Public Safety
Technology Stagnation
134 Years of Communications Technology Innovation
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I’m Mark Fletcher Chief Architect for Worldwide Public Safety Solutions at Avaya.
Today will be talking about Next Generation 911 Emergency Services, - Where we need to go and how were going to get there.
Over the last hundred and 34 years communications technology has been innovating from its initial invention by Alexander Graham Bell to the modern devices that we use every day came up all of most like media multimodal communications.
Telephony Technology has been on a much slower pace, and for all intensive purposes, there is been 45 years public Safety technology stagnation, with new mechanisms being put in place over the last five years.
This places us at an inflection point, where citizens are demanding more services from Public Safety agencies, yet the architecture is just beginning to mature. This raises several questions.
Where is the caller?
PHONE NUMBERS NO LONGER EQUAL LOCATION?
Do I even need PS-ALI Databases as this basic premise behind them is no longer valid.
What PSAP does the caller need to reach?
9-1-1 IS VERY REGIONALIZED
Businesses are FCE’ing their networks, again, the model is broken.
How do I manage user mobility?
MY USERS MOVE, A LOT!
Once again the basic premise is broken, and I don’t have real time access to the data store.
The problem today is that emergency call routing is based on a few basic principals. The first is the telephone number being presented to the network for routing.
It assumes that each address has a unique telephone number, therefore making the phone number the database key for the emergency call routing entity in the network.
The selective routing database manages the mapping of telephone numbers to their proper agency for call delivery.
While this is typically sufficient for residential citizens, individuals within a corporate enterprise have additional challenges due to large campuses with multiple buildings.
These may have no, or unclear, street addresses as they are on private property, and secure buildings may have access control requirements and multiple floors serviced by various entrances.
Enterprise users are typically not afforded the same level of location granularity, and while technology is available, it is often too confusing or expensive to deploy.
Because of this, Enterprise Public Safety issues are often pushed to the side or forgotten about, until a tragedy happens.
while this level of information certainly adds relevant data to the question of location, it by itself is not typically enough to provide discrete information to specifically locate an individual. Fortunately corporate enterprise networks contain additional data resources that can be utilized and queried. Information from LDAP and active directory can provide details on the individual. The user themselves may even contribute additional personal or medical information that they have opted in for. Relevant data points from the wireless LAN infrastructure or the ML TS PBX itself can provide visibility into the device that was used to place an emergency call. That information, correlated with cable management records can be utilized to fine tune the location. And finally, critical environmental information from smart buildings or HVAC systems can provide important clues such is ambient temperature or smoke conditions in the origination area of the emergency call. When looking at an emergency call hangups, this additional information can be critical in determining real calls from hoax calls.
This model also neatly packages this information for retrieval or transmission to public safety entities, once a next generation emergency services network infrastructure is put in place.
Inexpensive, yet highly functional software modules are that provide verbose notification to emergency call events on the network.
1st Responder clients can be anywhere on the network that has connectivity to the enterprise will. This would include remote branch offices or VPN users.
In addition to providing local on-site responders with critical information the server also acts as an integration point for the conveyance of rich location data to public safety.