Please advance wireless indoor location...
Please advance wireless indoor location technology, the city and county of San Francisco Department of Emergency Management asked FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski in a Monday letter (http://bit.ly/Xahz1Z). It especially praised the possibilities of vertical location positioning and noted that San…
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Francisco is dense and has a “large number of high-rise residential and commercial buildings.” Its 911 center serves close to a million people and manages as many as 2,600 emergency calls a day, it said. The department referred to trials by the FCC’s Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council Working Group 3 and called the results a possible “critical improvement” in what is a “promising” field. “These trials demonstrated the capability of determining a user’s position within 5-6 seconds, fast enough for use in routing E9-1-1 calls,” the letter said, also noting that 70 percent of wireless 911 calls originate indoors every year.