Emergency Call (eCall) Services Based on Approved E-112 Regulations and Infrastructures: A solution to improve security and release of road help

Location information is of vital interest for emergency services throughout Europe. Among the recent priorities of the European Union is to promote appropriate electronic communication technologies (like mobile cellular networks and satellite location systems), in order to improve road safety, to speed up rescue times and to provide an efficient ‘harmonised’ European emergency call (eCall) service, especially based on current E-112 regulations and infrastructures. Such an option implies significant potential, as well as a variety of commercial, socioeconomic and other benefits for a great variety of the market players involved. The eCall is a highly efficient solution that can serve the majority of road users. Moreover, it affects network operators, service providers and national authorities, to suitably coordinate their activities towards designing, developing and exploiting appropriate solutions (and new business partnerships) through an effective/converged use of all underlying infrastructures, for a common location-provisioning mechanism, timely implemented, accessed and effectively used by the E-112 community and emergency-service operators, to create interoperable solutions and to decrease implementation costs. The Challenge of Developing Emergency Call (eCall) Solutions for Road Safety