Advanced Mobile Location (or AML) is an emergency location-based service (LBS) available on smartphones that, when a caller dials the local (in country) short dial emergency telephone number, sends the best available geolocation of the caller to a dedicated end-point, usually a Public Safety Answering Point, making the location of the caller available to emergency call takers in real-time. AML improves the time taken by emergency call takers to verify the location of callers and can improve the time taken to dispatch an emergency response.
AML was standardised by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Emergency Telecommunications Subcommittee (EMTEL)[1] in 2016 as Technical Report (TR) EMTEL-00035.
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History
AML 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 smart-phone 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 a global navigation satellite system or WiFi depending on which one is better at the given moment. It was estimated that this technique is up to 4000 times more accurate than the previously used system. AML is being implemented in the UK by an increasing number of smart-phone 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.
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Implementations
Google announced in July 2016 that all Android phones from Gingerbread OS version include AML. Google calls their implementation Emergency Location Service (ELS).
Apple devices running iOS 11.3 or later also support AML as of 30 March 2018.
AML is deployed in Austria, Estonia, Lithuania, Belgium, Iceland, Finland, Ireland and New Zealand. Moreover, several 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 2018.
Functionality
AML automatically turns on mobile data on the handset (which may lead to charges to the user), automatically contacts Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers and sets date, and sends IMSI/IMEI over unencrypted (but invisible to the user) SMS message.
AML outcomes
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.
References
Source of article : Wikipedia
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