ERF Wireless has developed a GPS-based E911 solution for use...
ERF Wireless has developed a GPS-based E911 solution for use in the oil and gas industry, the company said Friday. “The majority of the Company’s revenue is derived from providing terrestrial wireless broadband communications, including VoiP telephone service, to…
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oil and gas rigs operated in remote areas of the United States,” ERF said. “These rigs operate in areas that many times do not have marked roads, highways or streets with the only access being a pathway across open ranch land or at best a road newly scraped out of the rocks and sagebrush.” The system “uses GPS coordinates, associated with the VoIP telephones [at] the drilling site, to locate the appropriate 911 call center and to dispatch emergency personnel who are suitably GPS equipped to specific geographic locations rather than physical street addresses,” ERF said.