Newscan: NENA, hotel industry push for direct-dial 911 capability

There is a legitimate debate whether laws should be passed that punish people for making calls to 911 when there is not an emergency, but there is little question that a Chicago police officer's attempt to use the 911 system deserves to result in some sort of penalty.

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Roger Hixson, technical services director for the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), and Michael Smith, chief technologist for DSS Corp., and the chairman of NENA's ICE 8 planning committee, talk about the work being done this week to ensure that public-safety answering points will be able to properly log and record next-generation 911 calls and their various elements, including video. The test event is being held at the Illinois Insitute of Technology's campus in Wheaton, Ill.

Erik Loberg, director of product management for TriTech Software Systems, details how CLQ—the company's new 911 wireless location application—utilizes commercial-carrier network data to provide 911 personnel with a new method to determine an emergency caller's location and an alternative means of communicating with the caller. Loberg spoke with IWCE's Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson during the NENA 2015 Conference & Expo in Denver.