This article  published thanks to Safer Buildings Coalition. 

The FCC estimates that a one-minute improvement in 9-1-1 response time would save 10,000 lives in the US. in a phrase: Time Is Life. At our 2024 Member's Meeting and Dinner at IWCE in March, SBC Founder Seth Buechley announced a bold Safer Buildings Coalition Call to Action: Setting the expectation that calls and texts to emergency services initiated from inside buildings should always get through, with clarity and accurate location. We have adopted the rallying cry:  9-1-1 Inside.

Implicit in this call to action are some key ideas:

• Solutions and the Workforce must scale to provide ubiquitous in-building connectivity – currently both technology and the workforce are overmatched by the scope of the problem
• A technology-agnostic approach is needed to drive down cost and increase scalability – including self-deployed solutions
• Solutions should both drive and leverage global...