| 摘要 |
A method and apparatus for providing subscriber alerts that warn the subscriber to severe weather and traffic conditions is provided wherein the subscriber may receive the alerts on a cellular phone, on a public switched telephone network phone (PSTN), on a pager, or by e-mail. Additionally, the subscriber may receive wakeup and reminder calls according to his or her subscribers profile. If a define weather condition is occurring or is about to occur in a defined zone, for example, or if a specified traffic condition is occurring on the defined traffic artery the subscriber receives alerts as specified in a subscriber profile stored within a server coupled to an intelligent network (IN) type of PSTN. A server, e.g., an SCP or IP, generates signalling to prompt an autodialer to dial a call to the subscriber and an IVR to play the select message. To generate the various types of alerts, a plurality of weather sensor systems are coupled to the IP or to the SCP to provide weather information thereto. Additionally, a plurality of traffic sensors are coupled to deliver traffic flow information to the SCP or IP.
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