Black Hawk County, Iowa, First to Accept 911 Texts
Great idea in fringe coverage areas
I have been in quite a few situations where coverage was not adequate to even establish a voice call, but there was just enough to send and receive text messages.
They were also potentially dangerous, and it would be difficult to quickly request help. My main solution was to use twitter and a contact back in town to ask for help if trouble arrived. Sometimes iridium is difficult to use under certain terrain conditions. I'd imagine it could really help SAR.
Carriers do have the rough positioning information available, and the handsets do have AGPS on board. Its already set up to pass location data out of band. In the future, something similar could be used when texting 911.
Not to mention that if you were under the bed hiding d...
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They were also potentially dangerous, and it would be difficult to quickly request help. My main solution was to use twitter and a contact back in town to ask for help if trouble arrived. Sometimes iridium is difficult to use under certain terrain conditions. I'd imagine it could really help SAR.
Carriers do have the rough positioning information available, and the handsets do have AGPS on board. Its already set up to pass location data out of band. In the future, something similar could be used when texting 911.
Not to mention that if you were under the bed hiding d...
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