Method and apparatus for sharing sensor information on a call

A first user equipment (UE) for sharing sensor information in a mission critical services (MCX) call, the sensor information including at least three of ambient temperature, ambient light, ambient barometric pressure, ambient humidity, and ambient wind speed, the UE comprising:

• memory storing instructions;
• a transceiver;
• and at least one processor coupled to the memory and the transceiver, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the first UE to:
• establish an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) media call with a second UE, the call including an ambience share feature tag including an IMS application reference identifier (IARI) with a value indicating a capability of ambience sharing by the first UE, sending, to the second UE, a sensor list request message, receive a sensor list response message including a subtype field and a sensor message field containing sensor information in the MCX call, and obtain the sensor information associated with the second UE from the sensor list response message, wherein:
• the subtype field includes a value among a plurality of predetermined values, and the sensor information in the sensor list response message field includes a list of sensors attached to the first UE when the subtype field includes a first value among the plurality of predetermined values, wherein the first value corresponds to the list of sensors along with captured sensor data with respect to an ambience from at least one sensor from a number of sensors attached to the second UE, the sensor information in the sensor list response message field includes a list of sensors on peripheral devices associated with the second UE when the subtype field includes a second value among the plurality of predetermined values, wherein the peripheral devices include at least two of:
• an air conditioner conditioning air in a room where the second UE is located to simulate an ambience of an environment surrounding the first UE, a heater heating the room where the second UE is located to simulate the ambience of the environment surrounding the first UE, a light source lighting the room where the second UE is located to simulate the ambience of the environment surrounding the first UE, a humidifier humidifying the air in the room where the second UE is located to simulate the ambience of the environment surrounding the first UE, a blower blowing air in the room where the second UE is located to simulate the ambience of the environment surrounding the first UE, a curtain in the room where the second UE is located to simulate the ambience of the environment surrounding the first UE, one or more smart or internet of things devices in a building where the second UE is located to simulate the ambience of the environment surrounding the first UE, and one or more smart home devices in the building where the second UE is located to simulate the ambience of the environment surrounding the first UE, and wherein the second value corresponds to the list of sensors related to the ambience of the environment surrounding the first UE for which there is a peripheral device associated with the second UE, and the sensor information in the sensor list response message field includes a list of a plurality of sensors attached to the second UE when the subtype field includes a third value among the plurality of predetermined values, wherein the third value corresponds to the list of sensors related to the ambience fetched by an on-device sensor in the first UE and a wearable attached to the first UE, wherein the IMS media call includes shared sensor information related to two or more of ambient light, ambient pressure, ambient temperature, and ambient humidity of an environment surrounding the first UE, along with audio and video.