For each emergency, your location is determined using your mobile device and transmitted to the responsible emergency control centre along with your emergency call.
Once the emergency call is sent, you are connected via the chat function directly to a call handler of the emergency control centre.
nora is free of charge and connects you directly with the responsible emergency control centres of the police or the fire rescue service β just like calling 110 or 112.
nora lets you communicate with the emergency control centre via a text-based chat.
The app uses the geolocation function of your mobile device to determine the location of the emergency and automatically sends this to the responsible emergency control centre.
nora makes it possible for people to make an emergency call themselves even if they canβt call the emergency numbers.
In an emergency, nora lets you send an emergency call with just a few steps.
nora is the official emergency call app of the German federal states.
nora can also be used in situations in which the emergency call needs to remain unnoticed.
Before you can use nora to make an emergency call, you first need to register.
Also, the emergency control centre can use the chat to ask follow-up questions to understand the nature of your emergency situation even better.
This makes the emergency call app equivalent to voice emergency calling for people with hearing or speech impairments.
Anyone who needs rapid assistance in an emergency situation anywhere in Germany can use the emergency call app.
For this, the app comes with a silent emergency call function for threatening situations.