ARLA/CLUSTER: Quem ligar por smartphone para o 112 em 2018 vai ter a sua chamada georreferenciada.

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

O 112 vai dispor de um serviço de geolocalização que enviará
automaticamente via sms as coordenadas de localização para o Centro
Operacional 112.PT

  por GUSTAVO BOM / GLOBAL IMAGENS

O governo quer avançar, no quarto trimestre do próximo ano, com a
georreferenciação do 112, uma tecnologia que permite a localização
geográfica das chamadas de emergência e "melhora a precisão da
localização" de quem liga para este número de emergência "em cerca de
quatro mil vezes", quando comparada com o método utilizado atualmente
em Portugal. Esta é uma das medidas que constam do Simplex+2017, que
será divulgado hoje no site do programa governamental.

O Ministério da Administração Interna quer "implementar em Portugal a
tecnologia AML (advanced mobile location)*", que é "aplicada em
smartphones, permitindo o reconhecimento de uma chamada de emergência
para o número 112, ativando os serviços de geolocalização e enviando
automaticamente, via sms, as coordenadas de localização para o Centro
Operacional 112.PT".

* Advanced Mobile Location (AML)

>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Advanced Mobile Location (or AML) is a caller location technique in
case of an emergency.

It was developed in the United Kingdom by British Telecom, EE Limited,
and HTC as a solution to problematic caller location in
emergencies.When a person in distress calls the emergency services
with a smartphone where AML is enabled, the telephone automatically
activates its location service to establish its position and sends
this information to the emergency services via an SMS.The services
uses either GNSS or WiFi depending on which one is better at the given
moment. It is estimated that this technique is up to 4000 times more
accurate than the previously used system.

Google announced in July 2016 that all Android phones in the world,
from Gingerbread OS version onwards, now include Advanced Mobile
Location (AML).Google calls their implementation Emergency Location
Service (ELS).

AML is being implemented in the UK by more and more smartphone
manufacturers and mobile network operators: BT, the mobile networks
EE, O2 and Three, together with HTC, Sony, Alcatel, and Samsung
handsets, have already successfully implemented AML. Apart from the
UK, AML is fully deployed in Estonia, Lithuania and the state of Lower
Austria. Moreover, around 10 countries around Europe are testing AML
as a solution to problematic caller location in an emergency with the
aim of deploying it by the end of 2017.

AML automatically turns on mobile data on the headset (which may lead
to charges to the user), automatically contacts NTP servers and sets
date, and sends IMSI/IMEI over unencryptd (but invisible to the user)
SMS message.

There are many success stories coming from the use of the technology,
such as the one from Lithuania, where a young boy saved his father's
life thanks to AML.