Competitive Advantages

Pro-teq Systems'  technology delivers three core competitive advantages:

Speed

Earthquake Warning must provide protection for all locations, regardless of where the epicenter occurs. In a large earthquake, the S-wave typically arrives at the surface 0.9 seconds after the P-wave. Pro‑teq's technology can produce a warning in 0.5-0.75 seconds, thus beating the S‑wave to the surface and providing enough time for many automated actions. This is one way Pro‑teq manages to eliminate the Blind Zone. The best competing early earthquake warning technology takes over 4 seconds, which produces a Blind Zone of at least 8 miles.

Accuracy

Automated actions can protect equipment and assets but there is often a shutdown cost. Since equipment can withstand varying amounts of shaking before damage occurs, a shutdown should only happen if the shaking will likely cause damage. Pro‑teq's technology estimates shaking intensity directly from P-wave analysis. This is unique and results in a speed advantage as well as providing better intensity estimates.

Reliability

No system that produces false alarms can be used to control business processes. Pro‑teq's design goal was to eliminate false alarms: there is no tolerable lower limit. Competing systems often treat false alarms as inevitable outcomes of earthquake warning. This makes them unsuitable for commercial applications. 

Other Competitive Advantages

In addition to the core advantages described above, there are additional advantages of Pro‑teq's approach to earthquake warning:  

Capability Benefit Competition Comparison
End-to-end
integration 		We ensure that warnings
are reliably delivered to the
place of use.		 Warning generation and applications are
separated functions in other earthquake
warning systems, leaving no single
organization that assumes overall
responsibility to ensure that protective
measures are taken.
Control and alerts Our focus is on initiating
automated protective measures.		 Protective measures are ignored, an
afterthought, or left entirely to the end-user
in public earthquake warning systems. We
support a full complement of control interfaces.
Alert policies We permit the end user to
specify rules that decide
when and which protective actions
are to be taken.		 There is no known similar capability in any
other earthquake warning system, which
generally choose for the end-user when an
action is to be taken or provide qualitative
thresholds the user can select.
End-to-end security Information and communications
security were fundamental design
requirements to protect against
malicious interference.		 Other systems treat security as an
afterthought, or as the last task to be
completed in implementation, which is
not the way to build a secure system.
Customer driven We can provide real savings. We listen to the end users and respond to
their requirements rather than dictate what
they should accept.