The function is intended for emergency centers so that location data received as anyone with a smartphone call an emergency number. It works on 99 percent of Android devices, Google writes on Monday.
Location data are sent normally based on cell towers and GPS. But the towers are in some cases a radius of kilometers, while GPS indoors does not always work.
With the new Android determines the location based on a combination of, inter alia, WiFi, GPS and cell towers. Thus can be estimated much better where someone is located.
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It is estimated that more than 70 percent of incoming calls to alarm coming from smartphones.
improved location data by the US authorities to save 10,000 lives each year because ambulances rather be on the spot.
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to use the improved technology, telecom providers should also allow the services. For the time being only to use the new feature in the UK and Estonia.
In these countries, Google has partnered with include Vodafone, BT, O2 and Tele2. Possibly the technique soon to the Netherlands.
Google emphasizes that the location data is only seen at emergency centers as a call to it. The function is part of an update to Google Play Services
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