The technology is more or less the same as the basis of the warning system used by Google for earthquakes or floods, except that in Ukraine it will serve something else: it will serve to warn people of the imminence of an air raid. It will serve to save them from a bombingIn short.
According to what was announced by the Mountain View company, in fact, Ukrainian citizens will receive directly on their smartphones (Android only) air strike warnings approaching: “At present, millions of people in Ukraine depend on air strike warnings to try and escape” explained Kent Walker, Google’s president for global affairsadding that “upon request and with the help of the local government, we have started to set up an air raid warning system for Android smartphones in Ukraine”.
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How the warning system will work
We wrote that “the technology is more or less the same as the basis of the earthquake warning system”, both because Google also says so and because it could only be so. The difference is that the information on the locations affected by the raids will come from the Ukrainian government (Walker explained that “the initiative is complementary to the existing anti-aircraft alarm systems and is based on the warnings sent by Kiev”), then probably Google will exploit the geolocation data of the phones to send the alerts are to those who are in the locations at risk.
David Burke, Big G’s Vice President of Engineeringconfirmed via Twitter both that “the system is based on our earthquake alert system” and that “the functionality is released today and will be available on all Android phones in Ukraine within a few days.”