7th Emergency Services Workshop
College Park, MD, USA - 11-13 May 2010
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Background
Like previous Emergency Services Workshops, this meeting is intended to foster the development and deployment of standards-based systems for next-generation, IP-based emergency calling. Likely topics for discussion include the folowing:
- Current issues related to standards for emergency calling
- Difference between PSTN and IP-based emergency calling systems
- Architectures and deployment experiences from different jurisdictions around the world (including national, state, and local levels)
- Transition strategies for moving from circuits to packet-switched technologies
Another of the main goals of the emergency services workshop series is to build a community of emergency services experts -- from multiple stakeholder organizations and from all around the world. In order to enable workshop attendees to interact in an informal setting, there will be a few social events in addition to the technical sessions.
Audience
Since one of the main goals of this workshop is to support dialogue among all the stakeholders in emergency calling, it will be a public meeting and we encourage all interested parties to participate, including:
- National, state, and local governments
- Network operators
- VoIP service providers
- Internet service providers
- Standards organizations
- Researchers
- Emergency services technical personnel
Draft Agenda
On each of the three days, we will start around 9:00 AM, and should finish our program for the day by 4:30 or 5:00. All times are in US EDT (GMT-4).
Slides will be posted to this directory
Tuesday, 11 May:
- 09:00-10:30
- 11:00-12:00
- 12:00-13:00: Lunch
- 13:00-15:00
- 15:15-16:30
- 18:30-21:30: Workshop dinner, sponsored by Telcordia
- Site: Clubhouse, UMD Golf Course
- Directions
Wednesday, 12 May:
- 09:00-10:30
- 11:00-12:00
- 12:00-13:00: Lunch
- 13:00-14:30 15:00-16:15
- OMA LOCSIP [pdf]
- Geolocation discussion
- 16:30: Tour of University of Maryland PSAP
Thursday, 13 May:
- 09:00-10:30
- 11:00-12:30
- 12:30-13:30: Lunch
- 13:30-15:30
- ECRIT on Android
- Mitre IC.NET
- Emergency multimedia streaming
- Closing discussion
Workshop Venue
The workshop will be held in the Jeong H. Kim building at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, USA.
Campus Map (see "Kim Engineering Building" in grid E3)
Travel and Hotels
The University of Maryland is located in College Park, Maryland, a northern suburb of Washington DC. The nearest airports are, in order of proximity:
- Washington Reagan National Airport (DCA), 14 miles
- Baltimore Washington International Airport (BWI), 26 miles
- Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD), 36 miles
The University of Maryland provides a list of recommended hotels.
Remote Participation
Remote participation for the meeting was provided via WebEx, provided by Cisco.
Program Chairs
The workshop is organized by the following persons:- Ashok Agrawala
- Richard Barnes
- Marc Linsner
- Mike Loushine
- James Winterbottom
Workshop Sponsors
- US Department of Transportation
- Telcordia
Workshop Host
This meeting is being kindly hosted by the MAXWell Lab, part of the University of Maryland Institude for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).