Emergency alerts may be coming to Amazon Alexa within a year
Sean Donelan
sean at donelan.com
Sun Feb 16 00:25:25 UTC 2020
On this week's Federal Emergency Management Agency podcast, the director
of the national emergency alerting system (IPAWS) mentions that FEMA has
been in dicussions with Amazon about pushing emergency alerts to Alexa
smart devices within the next year.
https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/audio/185904
https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1581516469042-7fbd06067a50c2aa33fe60e8df2a5b5d/FINAL_IPAWS_TRANSCRIPT.docx
You may remember last year, I was trying to get smart speaker vendors to
add emergency alerts. But the program managers at those companies said
they had no plans to add emergency alerts.
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