Telespazio’s Location & Emergency service is finalised: let’s prepare the deployment of the Office use case!

Text by: Caroline Morisot-Pagnon - Telespazio

Telespazio has finalised the development of the Location and Emergency service of the WAOW tool. The in-lab tests have proven the capacity of the service to provide the user’s location in both indoor and outdoor environments. In addition, the Emergency service, called E112 and based on the implementation of the PEMEA standard, has been tested successfully. The development of two additional servers for the testing of the PEMEA architecture (PSAP side of the PEMEA protocol) has proven very useful. The integration phase is now ongoing and will allow a complete testing of the E112 service during the Short-term tests. This test will involve other partners’ sensors for the monitoring of health data and the Decision Support System responsible for the automatic triggering of the E112 by the WAOW tool.

The next step for Telespazio is to supervise the deployment of the WAOW tool in one of the pilot site covering the use case ‘Office’: Mutua. Mutua is a collaborative mutual society based in Barcelona. This deployment raises many challenges. Some of these challenges are due to the distance between the Telespazio team (in Toulouse, France) and Mutua, like for instance remote organisation of the deployment or unfamiliarity with the offices. Other challenges will be faced by all partners responsible for the deployment and are intrinsic to the WAOW tool’s nature: the large-scale deployment of dozens of sensors, routers and computers in offices, the integration of the WAOW tool into the company network while respecting all security policies and so on.

However, as demonstrated since the very beginning of this project, the strong collaboration between partners will help this deployment being a success!