Researchers at UB are developing a PocketCare+ app for more efficient contact tracing

Buffalo Rising reports on PocketCare+, a new app developed by UB researchers that will provide a technologically advanced form of contact tracing to slow the spread of COVID-19. The app uses a smartphone’s Bluetooth technology to monitor the whereabouts of the user.

“PocketCare+ has a tremendous potential to protect individuals and communities, especially the front-line workers, during this pandemic. It could also better prepare various businesses, organizations and governments in their plans to re-open,” says Chunming Qiao, project leader, SUNY Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

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