[196247] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: California fires: smart speakers and emergency alerts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Ott)
Sat Oct 14 07:13:01 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:24:49 -0700
From: Andreas Ott <andreas@naund.org>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.OFS.7.76.1710131651460.68148@cnex.qbaryna.pbz>;
from sean@donelan.com on Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 04:59:17PM -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 04:59:17PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Has anyone heard if the smart speaker companies (Amazon Echo, Google Home)
> plan to include emergency alert capability? An estimate 10% of households
> own a smart speaker, and Gartner (well-known for its forecasting
> accuracy) predicts 75% of US households will have a smart speaker by 2020.
How is geolocation achieved on these in-home devices? Is that tied to
the ~80% accuracy of general purpose IP geolocation? Do they have GPS?
Or is this done via account data in case it contains a street location?
This is different from alerts to cellphones "tethered" to a tower where
you get a better location info, even for E911 (exclude corner cases
where you are on a "mountain" top overlooking silicon Valley and lock
onto a tower further away). There you are effectively sending the alert
to the tower at a certain location and it multicasts it out to the phones
that are attached to it.
-andreas
