Samsung Electronics has announced Thursday providing telecommunications infrastructure and devices for the Korean Public Safety Network using LTE technology. Upon implementation, this will be the first live PS-LTE network in the world in compliance with the 3GPP telecommunications standard.

The technology will enable people to connect themselves during emergency situations. The first responders may get connected to download videos and high resolution images of the locations they are heeding to. It will also enable users to tap into the network in search of available roads in a flood situation, reports Engadget.

3GPP is an international group of telecommunications bodies that hash out network standards (GPRS, 3G and LTE). Samsung will allow accessing PS-LTE initially in Seoul only. In second phase, it will be expanded up to Gangwon province and to countrywide by 2017, according to a report published in The Map Stories.

The demand for effective public safety communications has been increased dramatically. Samsung's public safety network technology is capable of addressing the demand, reports Samsung Newsroom quoting Youngky Kim, President and Head of Networks Business at Samsung Electronics.

Samsung appears as the lone vendor providing end to end solutions from infrastructure to devices. Its infrastructure offerings include base stations, IP-Multimedia subsystems (IMS), Push-To-Talk server and other core equipments. Moreover, Samsung introduces a rugged type smart phone for PS-LTE service.