Earlier today (17th September 2021), Xiaomi published a new patent for an interesting form of technology. The patent was titled “Method and Equipment for Realizing Seismic Monitoring of Mobile Devices.“
The Chinese tech giant’s application has a patent number CN113406696A and describes a method or system that is capable of reading/monitoring seismic activity from a mobile equipment. In other words, this technology would be used in detecting earthquakes. Furthermore, the ‘mobile device’ in question would transfer key data obtained to send it to an earthquake processing center. So, it is clear that the equipment will belong to the technical field of seismic monitoring and, in some form or manner, also be related to disaster prevention as well.
The patent even describes this entire process and its functioning. It would seek to standardize the virtual seismic sensor and designate the register regions with seismic activity on a map. The system would also permit the underlying processor to identify and predict possible earthquake events based on multiple readings. These readings are through this virtual seismic sensor that also transmits the data to seismic processing centers.
In terms of applications, this could mean Xiaomi would be able to create a early warning system from mobile devices, which might even include smartphones with sensitive enough sensors in the future, although, that is highly unlikely. Notably, this technology is somewhat similar to the early warning system that the company integrated with MIUI that functions based on AI algorithms.
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