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" <andr...@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 >
