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From: "Richard Porter" <richard@pedantictheory.com>
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 10:25 PM Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net> wrote:
I wouldn't think so, because some of the important alerts are very time sensitive. It's been mentioned several times in this thread that the earthquake alerts are on the order of 10 seconds in advance. I know someone that survived a tornado by a few seconds (the time it took to get out of bed and get to the bedroom door as the tornado dropped the second floor of the house on the bed).
4G/LTE/5G networks could be further leveraged for this. In Denton County, TX, USA, you can register to "opt in" to receive weather alerts. We get tornadoes here. I could see better leveraging of that technology than streaming services. It is uncommon to find anyone without a cell phone in the US anymore.
Yup; it's called Commercial Mobile Alerting Service (Or Wireless Emergency Alerts, if you're a consumer), and it's been deployed, over SMS Cell Broadcast, for about 10 years now, depending on your carrier. NWS can actually send Tornado WARNINGS *to specific sectors of specific towers*, so they can warn exactly the people necessary in real-time... if it's implemented correctly along the entire path. I'm not actually certain which carriers if any have actually deployed the enchilada. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274