3GPP Work Item description

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Feature: DELETED - Covered by SI - Transferring of emergency Call data

During 2004 a number of discussions were between the Commission for the European Communities (CEC), the automotive industry, the telecommunication industry and ETSI standards groups regarding the provision of in-vehicle emergency calls. Based on initial discussions, a joint initiative of the CEC ( DG Enterp and DG InfoSo), industry and other stakeholders was defined with aims to accelerate the development, deployment and use of Intelligent Integrated Safety Systems that use information and communication technologies in intelligent solutions, in order to increase road safety and reduce the number of accidents on Europe's roads. This initiative was called eSafety.

As part of this initiative, eCall was defined as a specific item in the scope of the eSafety initiative. It is intended to extend the current E112 capabilities to enable the Transferring of eCall data between the Vehicle and the Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs). This should rely on existing GSM/UMTS infrastructure.

As a result, the CEC has published Commission Recommendation on the processing of caller location information for the purpose of location-enhanced emergency call services (adopted by the Commission in June 2003). At this time, there is no directive, but this has not been ruled out.

The objective of this WI is to enable the transmission of data which is associated with an emergency communication to the PSAP. It will consist in the collection of regional requirements, matching these with existing capability within 3GPP standards and, if essential gaps are identified, to work towards an efficient 3GPP solution.

Part of this work should be to collect the minimum data set required by emergency services and identify the most appropriate means to supply this data to the PSAPs. 

The work would involve co-operation in the short term with European initiatives and groups such as E-MERGE, TRANSPORT PROJECT in ETSI RCC, ETSI MSG, EMTEL, ERM TG 37 and eCall Driving Group.  The work would also involve co-operation with similar initiatives in other regions, as they are identified.