RE: Take Contact Tracing to the next level by using a Taiyo Yuden EBSHSNZWZ board (with BLE + NFC)

phoenixcomm — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:11:11 GMT

[mention:18d073d7306a4a8694ee59c07b9ecc65:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] Colin very insightful.

~~Cris

RE: Take Contact Tracing to the next level by using a Taiyo Yuden EBSHSNZWZ board (with BLE + NFC)

shabaz — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:50:06 GMT

Hi Colin,

Nice idea! There's lots of scope to extend it too, for instance the browser page you're directed to could also report your signal strength encoded in the URL (say if people have their phone in a holder) just so they're aware if their mobile's technology is working to a reasonable distance. That might encourage them to scan just out of curiosity, to know how good/bad their phone is performing : )

On a related note I was thinking how enabling contact tracing could also be linked to a reward like a discount (if you're in a store) but I couldn't think of a way of doing it anonymously, except if (say) that URL you're directed to, would allow you to install a store app, and that app had a way of confirming if contract tracing is enabled - I don't know if Android/iOS have any method for an app to do that? I haven't looked in any detail.

If there was a way, then that's a huge incentive for people visiting stores to enable the contact tracing, since then they may get pop-up discounts in the store (i.e. the downloaded store app to handle that).