Lost Smartphones and its Implication to Contact Tracing Designs

Hari T. S. Narayanan, NetTools Consulting
2020 International Journal of Engineering Research and  
A Contact Tracing system collects, stores, and processes data to identify the contacts and the cases for an infection. All currently deployed contact tracing solutions are built with smartphones. The Bluetooth LE (BLE) present in smartphone is used in exchanging proximity data. There are solutions where this is complemented by tracking the subject's location using cellular or GPS technologies or both. Every year close to 70 million smartphones are lost globally, and most of them are lost for
more » ... d. This is a large number and this paper investigates its implication to global contact tracing solution.
doi:10.17577/ijertv9is070497 fatcat:sjf4bawehbhxrhx3fcsvynrpj4