[VoiceOps] Automatic 911 location updates

Aaron C. de Bruyn aaron at heyaaron.com
Fri Oct 26 01:48:32 EDT 2018


Depends on the construction.
I usually get a good GPS fix on my cell phone indoors.

Then again, I don't work in the 4th sub-basement of a skyscraper. ;)

-A

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:36 PM Carlos Alvarez <caalvarez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> They don’t work indoors.
>
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> Sent from my iPad
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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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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