Sophia Antipolis, 10 March 2017

NG112 Communications Plugtests event - Optimizing interoperability of emergency communications!

The 2nd edition of 'Next Generation 112 (NG112) Emergency Communications Plugtests^TM event in Europe' has been completed in ETSI.

Twenty companies from the emergency communications sector worked on validating the interoperability and conformity of market solutions using different scenarios and test cases.

"Next Generation technology is ready for us to use. More importantly, it is future-proof as it can continuously integrate new features.” said Cristina Lumbreras, EENA Technical Director. "Emergency services need to adopt NG112 solutions, one of the best investments they can make to provide the highest quality of services to their citizens."

While the 2016 event edition focused on voice and geo-localization solutions, the 2017 scope was extended to content-rich emergency calling, such as video calling, instant messaging and file transfers. Participants put their products to the test, gaining valuable insights from experiencing a variety of scenarios. Tested technologies included Advanced Mobile Location, PEMEA (the Pan-European Mobile Emergency Application) and more.

ETSI and EENA would like to thank all participants for joining. The event’s outcomes, and mainly the lessons learned, will contribute significantly to the further development of Next Generation solutions and, as a result, to the improvement of emergency response in Europe and the world.