The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) today stressed the importance of enabling emergency vehicles to be used as vehicle network systems (VNS) and contrasted VNS deployments with those of other systems, such as cells on light trucks (COLTs) and cells on wheels (COWs). “FirstNet is currently coordinating with organizations researching and demonstrating such platforms and working to ensure that the VNS is prioritized as appropriate to support commercial availability of this critical platform,” FirstNet’s CTO devices team said in a blog posting. “A number of vendors have already demonstrated initial offers or prototypes that meet many of the goals of a VNS.  In addition, there are relevant standards efforts within 3GPP that, in our opinion, could be relevant to the VNS concept.”

Read more here: http://www.firstnet.gov/newsroom/blog/tech-talk-updated-vehicular-network-system-vision