Android emergency location service: Locating emergency calls in a wireless world

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Android Emergency Location Service computes on-device fused location (Wi‑Fi, GPS, sensors) inside Google Play services and delivers it directly (not via Google servers) to emergency partners using AML data SMS or HTTPS fallback. Deployed since 2016 in 18 countries, covering ~600M people, it supplies locations for ~1.5M emergency calls per day and reports accuracy examples like ~6–12 meters, enabling faster routing and reducing multi‑minute dispatch delays.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:26Where's Your Emergency?
3. 3:51Founding Principles
4. 19:06Cell Tower location
5. 21:02Fused Location Provider (FLP)

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