[196249] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: California fires: smart speakers and emergency alerts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Baldridge)
Sat Oct 14 07:18:01 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20171013162449.H4389@naund.org>
From: Peter Baldridge <petebaldridge@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:31:09 -0700
To: Andreas Ott <andreas@naund.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I know with Alexa products they just ask you for a postal code for weather
updates. Probably covers 99 percent of cases.
On Oct 13, 2017 4:26 PM, "Andreas Ott" <andreas@naund.org> wrote:
> 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
>
