How does the 911 emergency system for wireless cell phones work?

Many people are ditching their traditional landline phones for cordless cell phones, which is outdated when the existing 9-1-1 emergency system in the US.

There is nothing worse than thinking that the 911 emergency system is universal and works everywhere and standing next to someone who has just had a life-threatening accident and cannot reach the appropriate dispatch using their cell phone. wireless. Without proper help, the person could die when, if there was a working and up-to-date 911 system, help could be only minutes away.

Many times, the 911 caller is stressed and yelling into the wireless cell phone and wants the person on the other end to give them help right away, but is too stressed to answer a few basic questions that describe their location. This is not only wasting precious time that the 911 attendant could be assisting the 911 caller, but also wasting valuable travel time for needed emergency services. ‘I think I’m in a certain place on a 100-mile stretch of highway really doesn’t cut it off in an emergency.’ In the original design with landlines, phone numbers were assigned to specific addresses.

The problem is that money dictates the quality of any 911 system and the training of the people behind the phone. Rural areas do not have the resources available that they might in urban areas. Rural areas should spend what resources they have on training staff. Your dispatch receiving equipment could be standardized and designed to receive only already processed data from a central location that receives the data from the Internet or wireless cell phone providers. This location data can be sent over the internet for processing where it is translated into useful location information and then the system sends this already processed data to the correct local dispatch and connects the 911 caller with this local dispatch Right.

Currently, one of the challenges is that the state or region in which the system is located also dictates how the 911 system works. Even though the FCC has mandated continuously since the 1990s that the system should exist, they have never mandated how the systems should work, so the result is that there is no national standard 911 system.

To be fair, it is a daunting task to come up with a standardized 911 emergency system that will work in all cases as technologies change and improve.

Back in the ’90s, the technology just wasn’t there to work when the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) started issuing mandates. But now the technology exists to make it work, but no technology works in all situations. Each system must be made up of multiple systems that interact and decide which system will work best in which situation. This level of complexity can be too costly for any local area to take on and continually stay up-to-date as technology changes. That is why this decision making needs to be done at a central or regional processing station that decides what technology will work best to locate the 911 caller. This decision making could be a form of artificial intelligence where the processing station you know where the data is coming from and you know if the area is urban or rural and what technology would work best. In the future, the 911 system could be part of a dedicated Internet that would only be used for emergency 911 calls and configured as a high-priority communications system with redundant equipment.

I am hopeful that the new President Obama will make 911 part of his charge to build and upgrade infrastructure in the US bringing emergency 911 into the 21st century and creating new jobs in the process. Power for the systems could be linked to solar and wind power with battery backup and/or diesel generator. This new standardized system could be a model for all emergency equipment used around the world.