Inferring Person-to-person Proximity Using WiFi Signals — mentioned by sbohacek

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:30:37 GMT

Instead of using GPS, consider using the WiFi base stations. Specifically, each location can be characterized by the set of WiFi base stations a phone can detect. GPS is useful while outdoors, but virus transmission is somewhat difficult outdoors. Indoors, a conference room on the third floor and the 40th floor will have the same GPS coordinates, but a phone in each location will detect a different set of WIFI based stations. This paper shows how WiFi base stations can be used https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.04730.pdf. I might not understand methods to achieve privacy, but here are some thoughts.…

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Inferring Person-to-person Proximity Using WiFi Signals — mentioned by sbohacek