A health crisis similar to the one we are facing is the right time for all of us to engage in the fight against the power of the world's tyrant: the coronavirus. Apple and Google are clear and have announced a similar project to fight the disease with our mobile devices.
In the fight against coronavirus, one of the tools that should, according to all experts, is to track your contacts. Detect nuclei of infection and warn people about contact with infected people So those isolation steps are far from over and do not contribute to new infections at key points in the management of the disease, which is when Google and Apple begin to work with these interactions.
Which device always deals with us? Our smartphone, too between Apple and Google we can say that almost all smartphones in the world overlap. The technology put into place by our smartphones is becoming an important tool that can have an impact on the management of the disease as well as in the future.
Let's explain it for all to understand: our phone (Android or iOS) will use its Bluetooth connection to communicate with other phones near us, and through it the "identifier" will be transferred to another phone to be saved. By the end of the day, our phone will have won many directions as we have phones nearby, and our phone will be on the phones we went.
Those identifiers will be used so that, in the event that someone is infected with a coronavirus, all their contacts will be promptly notified, those people will know that they have had someone who might join themTrue, the identity of that person will be confidential, but knowing that they have been in contact with an infected person, they will be able to develop isolation methods and thus not contribute to the development of new diseases.
This will be done in two phases again the first one will be via the API which will allow interoperability between iOS and Android devices and that the public health organization's programs will be able to use. These apps will need to be downloaded from the App Store and Google Play Store. The second phase, which will require more time to complete, will involve integrating the operation of the system into the system, which will let you not even need to download the program.
Privacy will be guaranteed under both companies, too only public health organizations and the government of each country can access this function. With the combination of the two companies, one of the first steps to managing the epidemic can be achieved, which has already recorded thousands of lives worldwide.
