Qualcomm’s Help for European
eCall Public Safety Project
Qualcomm, a wireless technologies and data solutions company, has
announced its support for the eCall, which is a European Commission
project to improve transportation safety. It provides rapid assistance to
motorists involved in a collision anywhere in the European Union. An
engineering team in Qualcomm Germany has been leading the system
development for an in-band voice-channel modem eCall solution that meets
the European Commission's requirements.
How it
works? A collision activates on-vehicle sensors causing an emergency voice
call (E112) to be established via the cellular network to local emergency
agencies through the Public-Safety Answering Point (PSAP). In addition to
enabling two-way speech communication between the motorist and the PSAP
operator, eCall employs an in-band voice-channel modem to transmit
position location, airbag deployment, Vehicle Identification Number and
other relevant information over the cellular network to the PSAP operator.
The in-band voice-channel modem enables use of existing cellular networks
to support quick deployment of an end-to-end eCall solution in vehicles
and PSAPs.
"Qualcomm
fully supports the important eCall public safety project," said Andrew
Gilbert, executive vice president of Qualcomm and president of Qualcomm
Internet Services, MediaFLO Technologies and Qualcomm Europe. "Based upon
our extensive experience with modems and speech codecs, we realized that
we had the technology and understanding to develop a technical solution
meeting the eCall requirements."
To
accelerate the deployment of the eCall solution, Qualcomm will not charge
royalties on sales of eCall in-band voice-channel modem equipment located
in the PSAP or core network that incorporate Qualcomm patents. Qualcomm's
licensing policy with respect to eCall solutions that are included in
WCDMA subscriber devices will be consistent with Qualcomm's standard
patent licensing policy, which does not increase Qualcomm's standard WCDMA
royalty rate for additional Qualcomm patented technical functionality that
is included in a dual-mode handset.
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