Work Group 4C

Steering Committee

Technical Options for E9-1-1 LOCATION ACCURACYOctober 7, 2010

Current Events/StatusFull WG4C

20 conference calls to date

WG members are challenged to actively participate on a regular basis due to other CSRIC WG activities, business needs and other valid reasons

Multiple face-to-face meetings not practical due to fiscal constraints on public safety members as well as private sector members

Divided into 2 subgroups and 1 review team

Current Events/Status (continued)Service Type/Applications Subgroup

9 conference calls

Identified 20 different service types and variations, and descriptions, that require location for 911 service

Current Events/Status (continued)Locations Technologies Subgroup

15 conference calls

Identified 5 deployed for 911

Identified at least 6 emerging technologies which possibly could be used to provide a 911 location fix

Current Events/Status (continued)Location Accuracy Data Review Team

(Project Red – California)

3 conference calls

Working to determine how empirical data can be used within the charter

Action Items WG 4C has no closed items

Open items:

Identify: Industry standards direction for location & ability

to use location for NG services and applications

Emerging location technologies, including combining multiple technologies to improve location accuracy

When such technologies could be available

Security issues & vulnerabilities around future location technologies

Interactions with existing technologies & any backward compatibility issues

Action Items ContinuedOpen Items con’t.

Identify: Opportunities to apply NG location technologies to current

networks Impacts to user equipment, networks, agencies, etc. for

deployment of future E9-1-1/Public Safety accuracy technologies

Barriers to deploying these technologies

The two prime subgroups are collaborating and merging work products

The draft report has been formatted and is being populated

Work Group 4C - Next Steps

Within the last week WG4B Technology subgroup referred two issues to WG4C for consideration

On October 12 & 13, WG4C co-chairs, Report formatter, Service Type/Applications and Location Technologies subgroup leaders meeting to start draft report composition

On November 4 & 5 all WG4C members have been invited to a report drafting session

The co-chairs and the members of WG4C request a two month

extension for all target dates in order to complete the work.

The WG has found that the topical areas contained in the description of

the WG have proved to be more complex than expected.

WG 4C Recommendation