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，开发一种接触距离跟踪应用程序，可用于医院和其他组织管理COVID-19和其他传染病的影响。EMTEC还与英国建筑行业和食品加工行业的公司合作开发了一种硬件设备，当员工之间的距离在两米以内时，它就会发出警报，并收集和报告接触追踪数据。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，并且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现有的基于云的平台上。EMTEC还在测试使用蓝牙和超宽带协议的硬件设备，以比手机上的接触追踪应用程序更准确地测量距离。项目团队正在开发分析方法，可以识别用户，在建筑物内WIFI信号的帮助下，基于三角测量对他们进行定位，然后应用机器学习方法构建具有概率的真实接触图。例如，不仅与COVID-19患者接触的工作人员将面临高风险，与他们互动的人也将面临高风险。接触者追踪的近期目标是在确定新感染时能够追踪到所有高危接触者并实施有针对性的检测。联系人跟踪是管理员工水平、保持医院和其他公司运营同时管理风险的一项关键技术。该项目的首要任务是建立和观察管理层和员工所要求的隐私保护问题。隐私保护分析将基于美国公平信息实践原则（FIPPS）和欧洲通用数据保护条例（GDPR），以确保全球可行性。结合蓝牙和超宽带设备以及接触者追踪应用程序的增强型解决方案将于2021年3月在全球范围内广泛部署。

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.