Two Tech Giants,Google and Apple released a new smartphone technology for Covid-19 Pandemic.
Last Wednesday,
May 20, 2020; Google and Apple had released a technology that will automatically
enables a smartphone user to detect if he or she is exposed to Covid-19.
This
smartphone technology was based on Bluetooth wireless connectivity, that will
enable to detect automatically a user who downloaded the app, which also have
in contact with person which again downloaded the app and later test positive to
Novel coronavirus.
According
to Google and Apple, 22 countries and some U.S states are already planning to
build their own app using the technology.
Many governments
have tried to roll out their own app for fighting the current Covid-19 pandemic,
but mostly had failed also. Some apps that failed have encountered issues on
Apple and Google phones, and they are not being widely adopted. This apps uses
GPS to track the people, which in Apple and Google’s technology don’t because
of privacy concerns.
The companies
said, they are not trying to replace the “contact tracing”, which is very
important action in fighting this Covid-19 pandemic that requires a trained
public health worker reaching out people, who may have contact with an infected
individual.
The user of
this new app or technology will be protected by an encryption and anonymous identifier
beacons that will change constantly.
The good
thing of this partnership of Google and Apple, is that almost all smartphones
will be able to detect a user, if he/she is expose to Covid-19 regarding whether
he/she has an iPhone or Android Phone. Also, this technology could fix some
problem of previous app to quickly drain a smartphone battery.
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