[VoiceOps] Automatic 911 location updates

[Carlos Alvarez]

They don’t work indoors. 


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> On Oct 25, 2018, at 10:07 PM, Aaron C. de Bruyn via VoiceOps <voiceops at voiceops.org> wrote:
> 
> I've always wondered why VoIP phones don't have a cheap GPS chip in them.
> 
> Sure, it could raise all sorts of problems from a spoofing
> perspective, but for valid 911 calls it could come in handy...
> 
> -A
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 4:41 PM Ryan Delgrosso <ryandelgrosso at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Automatic, nope. Psuedo-auto im looking at it now.
>> 
>> West supports sending custom headers to indicate a phones location inside a building to provide additional routing info but nothing using geo-location.
>> 
>> You could leverage this to have phones send custom headers based on network location.
>> 
>> I have not seen anything using geo-ip or GPS primarily because most IP handsets dont to those things.
>> 
>> 
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>> On 10/23/2018 4:21 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote:
>> 
>> Is anyone doing this yet?  The ability to detect the location of a phone and automatically update the 911 address?  Yes, I realize it's a difficult if not impossible thing, yet thought I'd ask since a customer asked me.
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