Someone do a kickstarter already. I'll contribute. ;) -A
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com> wrote: > On Sun, 15 Oct 2017, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >> >> On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 18:50:51 -0700, Joe Hamelin said: >>> >>> I would think that Amazon knows where my Echo is since it's the same IP >>> that I order (way too much crap) from. >> >> It knows the usual delivery address. That's not necessarily the same >> thing. >> > > First, need to figure out if any smart speaker manufacturers have any plans > to add emergency alerts to their product. Only need to solve the other > problems if they do, otherwise it doesn't matter. > > > While VOIP phones needed exact addresses for 9-1-1 purposes, emergency > alerts are rarely as specific as a city or county. An exact > longitude/latitude would be nice to have, but probably not necessary for > most emergency alerts. All the smart speakers ask for the user's location, > at least a zip code, during the installation. And they seem to use the > typical advertising network IP address geolocation. > > It would be creepy if an emergency alert was too targetted. It may be > better to keep it larger than a mile radius, rather than a single house.