FCC - Indoor Location Accuracy Benchmarks

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10-02-2019 02:44 PM
BillFox
MVP Frequent Contributor

FCC - Indoor Location Accuracy Benchmarks

The April 3, 2020 Nationwide Benchmark is almost due.

The April 3, 2018 benchmark included a barometric pressure requirement too.

   Electronic Code of Federal Regulations

   "(A) Within 3 years: All CMRS providers shall make uncompensated barometric data available to PSAPs with respect to any    911 call placed from any handset that has the capability to deliver barometric sensor information."

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JoeBorgione
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I'm no longer in the 9-1-1 business, but as I've always said, you take the kid out of the dispatch center, but you can't take the dispatch center out of the kid...

A couple of questions and they may be just because I've lost track of the new regs:

1. If I read the Indoor Accuracy statements correctly, (and please correct me if I'm way off base) they state a 50 meter positional accuracy is required.  In my head I picture a  13 year old kid hiding in a closet while his mother's boy friend is assaulting the mother.  The event is taking place in an apartment and the kid calls 9-1-1; It seems like a fifty meter window to locate that kid (and his mom) is pretty big.

2.  What is the purpose of transmitting barometric pressure?  Is it a surrogate for elevation?

That should just about do it....
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BillFox
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BillFox
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great point in the last slide: "This is a floor, not a ceiling"

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