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UrduThe European Commission has launched a new system designed to link national COVID-19 tracing apps across the European Union — starting with Germany’s Corona-Warn-App, Ireland’s COVID tracker and Italy’s immuni. With the system — known as the interoperability gateway —…
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Expert source: Proximity detection in contact tracing
UC San Diego electrical engineer Dinesh Bharadia is available as a source to answer questions about proximity detection in contact tracing apps, particularly in more challenging indoor environments. Dinesh and his research team specialize in determining robust and precise locations indoors, and…
Using your phone’s microphone to track possible COVID-19 exposure
Signals sent and received from cell phone microphones and speakers could help warn people when they have been near someone who has contracted COVID-19, researchers say.
In a new paper, researchers described a system that would generate random, anonymous IDs for each phone, automatically send ultrasonic signals between microphones and speakers of phones within a certain radius, and use the information exchanged through this acoustic channel for contact tracing.
Billions of people could be invisible in COVID-19 contract tracing efforts utilizing smartphone apps
A West Virginia University consumer law expert says recent announcements by Apple and Google that they’re developing a system to enable widespread contact tracing in an effort to contain the COVID-19 pandemic raises significant questions beyond whether such a plan…