Pandemic Exposure/Proximity

Track & Trace

What makes your approach better than other solutions ?

Our near real-time on-the-fly proximity calculations has the advantage, that we can quickly do our calculations and delete travel  history and just keep the useful  data which is the anonymous IDs and time durations people were next to each other.  This lessens risks of data breaches that can later be misused or exploited. As the data is shown to everyone who registered there is no reason to hack anything either. We also seek co-operation with anyone who would like to receive our JSON data or use their APPs to write to our servers, to help build a community of people that can really make a difference and curve future pandemics. 

Other mobile app solutions doing digital contact tracing like this one are very time consuming. Having to look into your google location history and manually trace and try figure out contacts over the past 15 days can be completely useless as you will not know who was sitting next to you at a coffee shop 5 days ago. So in fact, other than just giving those investigating health workers a list of friends/family and co-workers you were near over the past 15 days these historical locations won't help much. It may trigger your memory where you may have gone but if you don't know the people or passers by where you went you still at a dead end helping others.

China QR codes scanning on front doors of buildings does not mean in fact people in the building have crossed paths either and is a vague way of contact tracing. 

Cell Phone Tower Location accuracy  still nowhere near as accurate as GPS rules out that technology as a viable solution. 

There is no silver bullet solution for such situations but one must try find the most logical solution and we think all privacy concerns were addressed using GPS as our chosen solution of choice.