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JUL 2014

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29 www.officer.com July 2014 Law Enforcement Technology RADIO & DISPATCH have a great deal of confidence in the location data provided to their PSAPs by the wireless carriers ■ 54 percent said that the Phase II information provided by carriers that is supposed to show the caller's location is "regularly" inaccurate. ■ 99 percent supported the FCC's pro- posed requirements for indoor loca- tion accuracy within two years ■ 99 percent percent said the adoption of that rule was "critically" or "very" important for public safety in their communities ■ 94 percent opposed waiting an addi- tional three years to implement the rule, as some carriers have proposed Barnetts states they had a tremendous response; the passion came out in 200 personal stories. "Statistics are one thing; they have their own power," he says. "Then when you see how this applies to a mother with a young toddler chok- ing, or a woman who is being sexually assaulted at the time, you can see the real human impact of not having the technol- ogy. There is no 911 professional who is overpaid. They are doing it because they believe it in. It is frustrating to listen to someone dying over the phone." Technology exists Many critics state the technology to meet the FCC mandate doesn't exist, but this is inaccurate. "The FCC did tests and it's clear there is more than one technology that is capable indoors," Barnett says. It's not about asking carriers to move away from GPS, but about asking them to use more technology: "Adding technology that will locate you no matter where you are," he explains. Find Me 911 Coalition out- lines numerous technologies that are cur- rently operational. Three of these technolo- gies participated in the CSRIC Test Bed: Advanced Forward Link Trilateration (AFLT) ■ A technology that computes location by measuring the time it takes multiple cell tower transmissions to reach the cell phone ■ Fully operational ■ Provided by Qualcomm RF Pattern Matching ■ Computes location by measuring the power levels received by the handset from multiple cell towers ■ Fully operational ■ Provided by Polaris Wireless Terrestrial Beacon Transmitters ■ Computes location by measuring the time it takes signals to arrive at the handset from multiple beacons ■ Fully operational ■ Developed by Progeny/NextNav TruePosition, Inc. currently oper- Circle 70 on Reader Service Card LET_26-30_LeftToDie0714.indd 29 6/25/14 12:00 PM

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