Emtec De-Centralised Contact Tracking Project

EMTEC正在与田纳西大学健康科学中心的一个医疗团队合作，开发一种接触者邻近跟踪应用程序，医院和其他组织可以使用该应用程序来管理新冠肺炎和其他传染病的影响。Emtec还在与英国建筑业和食品加工业的公司合作开发一种硬件设备，当员工之间的距离不到两米时，该设备会发出警报，并收集和报告联系人跟踪数据。Emtec软件开发团队在使用GNSS位置数据和蓝牙进行车辆跟踪方面拥有丰富的经验，并将能够使用安装在手机上的应用程序将人员跟踪技术部署到其现有的基于云的平台上。Emtec还在测试硬件设备，这些设备使用蓝牙和超宽带协议来测量接近程度，比手机上的联系人跟踪应用程序更准确。项目团队正在开发分析方法，可以识别用户，在建筑物内借助WiFi信号基于三角定位定位他们，然后应用机器学习方法建立具有概率的真实联系人图。例如，不仅接触新冠肺炎患者的工作人员会是高危人群，与他们互动的人也会是高危人群。接触者追踪的直接目标是能够在确定新感染时追踪所有高危接触者，并实施有针对性的检测。联系人跟踪是一项关键技术，用于管理员工水平并在管理风险的同时保持医院和其他公司的运营。该项目的基本优先事项是建立和观察管理层和员工所需的隐私保护问题。隐私保护分析将基于美国公平信息实践原则(FIPPS)和欧洲一般数据保护法规(GDPR)，以确保全球生存能力。融合蓝牙和超宽带设备以及联系人追踪应用程序的增强型解决方案将于2021年3月准备好供更广泛的全球社区部署。

EMTEC is collaborating with a medical team at The University of Tennessee Health Science Centre to develop a contact proximity tracking application which can be used by hospitals and other organisations to manage the impact of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. EMTEC is also working with companies in the UK’s construction industry and food processing industry to develop a hardware device, which alarms when employees come within two meters of each other and collects and reports contact tracing data.The EMTEC software development team has extensive experience of vehicle tracking using GNSS location data and Bluetooth and will be able to deploy people tracking technology onto its existing cloud-based platform using apps installed on mobile phones. EMTEC is also testing hardware devices which use both Bluetooth and ultra-wideband protocols to measure proximity much more accurately than the contact tracing apps on mobile phones.The project team is developing analysis methods that can identify users, localise them based on triangulation with the aid of WIFI signals inside buildings and then applying machine learning methods to build a true contact graph with probabilities. For example, not only staff in contact with COVID-19 patients will be high risk but also the people that interact with them. The immediate goal of the contact tracking is to be able to trace back all high-risk contacts when a new infection is determined and implement targeted testing. Contact tracking is a critical technology to manage staff levels and keep hospitals and other companies operational while managing risk.The project has an essential priority on establishing and observing the privacy protection issues required by management and staff. The privacy protection analysis will be based on USA Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPS) and European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to ensure global viability.The enhanced solution incorporating the Bluetooth and ultra-wideband devices as well as the contact tracing apps will be ready for wider global community deployment by March 2021.