The patent jointly studied by Xiaomi and the Institute for disaster reduction has been announced, which can detect earthquakes based on mobile terminals.

CTOnews.com news on December 6, according to the China Patent announcement of the State intellectual property Office (application no.: CN115440006A), the patent for "a method, device and readable storage medium for detecting seismic information" applied by Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd. and Chengdu Hi-Tech disaster reduction Research Institute was announced.

It is shown that the invention provides a method, a device and a readable storage medium for detecting seismic information. The method includes: detecting a seismic wave signal through a built-in sensor; transmitting the seismic wave signal to a network device so that the network device determines seismic information according to the seismic wave signals detected by a plurality of mobile terminals, and the seismic information includes: epicenter location information, earthquake occurrence time and earthquake intensity.

In the disclosure, making use of the characteristics of low cost and flexible use of sensors in the mobile terminal, a monitoring network with wide coverage can be established by using the public mobile terminal, and the characteristic that the radio wave is faster than the seismic wave is used to issue a notice and early warning before the arrival of destructive seismic waves to reduce disaster losses.

Xiaomi has previously launched the earthquake warning function, supporting most of the country's 25 provinces (including municipalities and autonomous regions). Users who turn on the earthquake warning function will receive a strong reminder when an earthquake occurs and will actually be affected by the earthquake.

CTOnews.com learned that earthquake early warning is not earthquake prediction, but an emergency warning issued after an earthquake and before the arrival of destructive seismic waves. This warning will tell you how long the earthquake will come and the possible impact of the earthquake, so as to give us valuable time to avoid danger.

In addition, Xiaomi mobile phone has also launched the earthquake monitoring function, using the phone's built-in low-power sensor to sense seismic waves, and then using the AI algorithm to measure earthquake information and give early warning to the people in the affected areas.