GeoComm Partners With NextNav to Improve Emergency Response Indoors
May 04 2022 - 9:00AM
GeoComm, Public Safety Location Intelligence® Platform provider, is
pleased to announce a new partnership with NextNav, a leader in
z-axis vertical positioning, to enhance floor-aware indoor mapping
for E9-1-1.
Recent regulatory
requirements from the FCC require the 911 caller's vertical
location to be determined with +/- 3m accuracy 80% of the time.
NextNav's solution far exceeds that requirement, delivering +/- 3m
94% of the time according to independent tests. Using local GIS
data and building information, GeoComm systems can convert raw
positioning measurements received from wireless carriers into
dispatchable locations including, but not limited to, building
name, street address, and sub-address elements such as floor and
room number. Improved accuracy in locations empowers emergency
responders to locate 9-1-1 callers inside buildings faster, saving
more lives and protecting more property.
Through the partnership
with NextNav, GeoComm systems are also enabled with the ability to
take indoor tactical mapping displays to the next level,
automatically highlighting the vertical location from where a 9-1-1
call originated in a multistory building. This partnership builds
upon NextNav’s recent partnership announcement with a nationwide
wireless carrier to provide precise vertical location information
for 9-1-1 callers.
“9-1-1 positioning
technology is moving indoors. Thanks to the hard work of many
in the industry we are now witnessing a convergence of regulation,
enforcement, legislation, standards, and technology enabling
accurate positioning of emergency callers and responders
indoors. But without an indoor map, a highly accurate and
precise indoor position is little more than a blue dot on an
otherwise blank whiteboard. The partnership with NextNav gives
us the ability to make our indoor maps truly floor aware by, for
the first time ever, enabling accurate z-axis surveying inside
multi-story buildings,” said John Brosowsky, Vice President of
Innovation at GeoComm.
“Bringing vertical
location capabilities to the Public Safety ecosystem will expedite
our industry’s ongoing transformation to a next generation 9-1-1
(NG9-1-1) end state, and as a result, help save lives,” said Dan
Hight, VP of Business Development and Partnerships. “With NextNav’s
Pinnacle service and through partnerships with leaders in the
industry like GeoComm, agencies gain precise vertical location
intelligence that can be easily provided to PSAPs without the need
for an additional pane of glass.”
About
GeoComm: GeoComm, provider of Public Safety
Location Intelligence®, serves local, regional, statewide, and
military agencies in forty-nine states, helping keep more than 100
million people safe. Over the last 26 years, GeoComm’s public
safety GIS systems have routed emergency calls to the appropriate
9-1-1 call center, mapped the caller’s location on tactical
emergency response mapping displays, and guided emergency
responders to the scene of the accident on in-vehicle mapping and
navigation applications within police, fire, and ambulance
vehicles. In addition, our statewide NG9-1-1 GIS project
footprint has expanded to include 17 statewide projects across the
country. Visit www.geocomm.com to learn more about GeoComm and our
Public Safety Location Intelligence offerings.
About
NextNav: NextNav Inc. (Nasdaq: NN) is a leader in next
generation GPS, enabling a whole new ecosystem of applications and
services that rely upon vertical location and resilient geolocation
technology. The company’s Pinnacle network delivers highly accurate
vertical positioning to transform location services, reflecting the
3D world around us and supporting innovative, new capabilities.
NextNav’s TerraPoiNT network delivers accurate, reliable, and
resilient 3D positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) services to
support critical infrastructure and other GPS-reliant systems in
the absence or failure of GPS.For more information, please
visit https://nextnav.com/ or follow NextNav
on Twitter or LinkedIn.
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