emynos – News & Events

The EMYNOS final demonstration took place on January 31st in Bucharest, Romania with the support of Romanian Special Telecommunications Service (STS).

The EMYNOS pilot took place at the premises of the Austrian Red Cross- Regional branch Steiermark, on December 20, 2017. The event gathered representatives from different sectors, ranging from end users to members of the telecommunication´s industry, among others.

On November 27, 2017, the second workshop on Next-Generation Emergency Communications organized by the EMYNOS project successfully took place at the headquarters of the Spanish National Police in Madrid. The event gathered more than 60 stakeholders from the research, industry and end-user communities, including organizations working in 112 emergency services.

This emergency workshop will focus more on presenting the EMYNOS project ESInet, particularly, in terms of architecture specification and implementation regarding total conversation, WebRTC based emergency calls, accurate location for emergency calls, and solutions for persons with disabilities.

The EMYNOS project has underlined the effective use of satellite infrastructure for emergency communications. Accordingly, as part of Turkish pilots EMYNOS developed and demonstrated an initial fail-over use case scenario, when all other communication networks were assumed to be not operational. These scenarios have been publicly demonstrated on November 23, 2017, in Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University (AYBU), as the project pilot showcase.

We are delighted to announce that EMYNOS will be presented at the Illinois Institute of Technology Real-Time Communications (IIT RTC) conference and Expo/The International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) Connect Forum to take place on 25-28 September in Chicago, USA. EMYNOS presentation is scheduled from 2:00 - 2:30 PM local time on Wednesday, September 27.

European institutions are currently debating the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC), a massive legislative file that will update telecoms rules within the EU.

EMYNOS participated in the 11th edition of the Eastern and Central European Regional Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ECER AAC) Conference.

In an effort to cope with the rapidly increasing demand for continuous multimedia communications anywhere, anytime and with any device,

We are pleased to announce the participation of EMYNOS at the upcoming EENA Conference to be held in Budapest.

Google and the European Emergency Number Association (EENA) have worked together to tackle the issue of accurately locating the source of emergency by adopting a system that will revolutionize location pinging.

Last 11th February marked the anniversary of the single European emergency number 112, which receives an average of 255 million mobile emergency calls every year and constitutes an important technological tool to help EU citizens in distress.

We are pleased to announce that EMYNOS will participate to the second emergency communications interoperability Plugtests™ event organized by ETSI in cooperation with the European Emergency Number Association (EENA).

The EMYNOS technical meeting that took place on the 21-22 February 2017, at the Technological Educational Institute of Crete (TEIC) in Crete led to a successful test session.

The augmented-reality headset Google Glass is getting a second life as a tool to help paramedics and emergency medical technicians in disaster areas.