Android releases new feature starting today. It’s Emergency Location Service or emergency locator service and is an initiative of the search engine for emergency services to receive your exact automatically position after a call from an Android smartphone, without that you have to do anything. The initiative starts in United Kingdom and Estonia, but the great G wants to extend this new provision to the rest of countries with the greater as soon as possible.
From now on, calls to emergencies like the 112 services will be much more effective from Android devices. And is that Google, in collaboration with such agencies and them own operators, prepares a service of location of emergency that added as novelty the capacity to send our location through triangulation of antennas, signal of networks WiFi nearby and the own GPS with so only the made of make it called.
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The measure will be especially effective in cases in which the user see with difficulty provide the exact location in which there has been a since incident to Emergency Location Service does not require the user to send the geopositioning. Of the same mode, Google expects that this novelty serve to save lives since the made of know it position exact of the affected automatically will serve to reduce the time between that is produces it called and is displace them services medical and forces of security until the point pointed out. To this respect, the great G points that the statistics speak of that in U.S. the reduction of the time in a min of this type of calls allows save 10,000 lives to the year.
Introduction of the emergency locator service
Emergency Location Service will not depend on Google servers. The company aims to that user geopositioning information is sent through the network of the operator to reach emergency services, unless it is treated by the search engine servers network. For the moment, this emergency locator service starts as a novelty in the United Kingdom and Estonia, but soon it will be extensible to other countries. He reason not is another that is necessary that the network of data of the operator and the own systems of the service of emergency are compatible. As for the computers, Google speaks that approximately 99% of Android it will be. So that the user begin to enjoy this new feature only is required, in addition to the network, an update to the Google Play servicessupport.
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