Special Committee (SC) Emergency Telecommunications (EMTEL)

Abstract

The EMTEL Special Committee is responsible for the capture of European requirements concerning emergency communication services, covering typically the four scenarios in case of an emergency e.g. communication of citizens with authorities, from authorities to citizens, between authorities and amongst citizens. In addition, EMTEL deals with topics like location (e.g. Advanced Mobile Location), NG112, communications involving IoT devices in emergency situations and alerting.

General Information

Working groups: https://www.etsi.org/committee/1397-emtel

ICT rolling plan topic: 5G communications

SDO: ETSI