The FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau is considering organizing a workshop at Columbia University early in 2012 on research and technology issues related to next-generation (IP-based) emergency calling, commonly known as NG911.
I'm currently trying to determine whether there is sufficient community interest to make such a workshop successful. Thus, please let me know if you or your research group would be interested in participating in such a workshop, either because you are working on related topics, have built related systems or are interested in working on them in the future. Issues of interest will likely include, but not be limited to: - indoor and outdoor location determination for emergency calls - accessibility (emergency calling for people with disabilities) - text and other non-voice emergency calling - human factors issues (media usage and effectiveness) - integration with environmental and biological sensors - system issues: NG911 as part of the overall public safety infrastructure Disclaimer: The FCC is a regulatory agency, does not fund research and will not be able to fund travel to the workshop. We are, however, trying to coordinate with relevant funding agencies. Please let me know by Oct. 31 whether you'd be interested and what you'd be able to contribute to the workshop (or like to get out of it). We are looking only a preliminary indication, not a commitment. Some basic background on recent Commission action is at http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-next-generation-911-nprm ; background on NG911 can be found at http://www.nena.org/?NG911_Project Henning [Columbia University | Engineering Fellow, FCC] _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
