April 13, 2020 By Pierluigi Paganini
Google and Apple recently announced a joint project for the development of a Coronavirus ‘contact tracing’ tool for mobile devices.
A contact tracing app is a tool that could be used to contain new diseases, like Coronavirus, by tracking down and quarantining everyone that gets infected and localize any person that has been in contact with him/her.
Contact tracing technologies played an essential role in the containment of the pandemic in several countries, including South Korea, Singapore, Israel, and other nations.
Google and Apple have joined forces to develop a contract-tracing tool to face COVID19 pandemic, the IT giants are expected to release an API that could allow government agencies can integrate into their applications.
The companies plan to design a built-in system-level platform that uses Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons to implement an “opt in system” contact tracing technology.