Representatives of Cisco discussed the role Wi-Fi can...
Representatives of Cisco discussed the role Wi-Fi can play in indoor 911 location accuracy, in a meeting with Henning Schulzrinne, chief technology officer of the FCC. “Cisco explained that its current efforts, and the efforts of many industry players, are…
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to use existing network and existing client device technologies to make indoor location as much like outdoor cellular GPS location as possible,” the company said in a filing on the meeting (http://bit.ly/11ncX5g). “In Cisco’s view, this objective will best be achieved by harnessing the location data available in Wi-Fi networks, and Wi-Fi equipped client devices.” The potential is huge to make indoor 911 much more accurate, Cisco said. “Cisco indicated that significant work remains to be done by industry in this area, such as development of a plan to generate civic addresses (including floor numbers) and generating location data for a Wi-Fi enabled device that has not authenticated to the Wi-Fi access point,” the filing said. “However, if that work can be brought to completion, location accuracy of 5 meters, and even as accurate as 1 meter, is achievable."