Computer scientists release new digital contact-tracing technique based on Wi-Fi – News-Medical.Net

Researchers at the Center for Smart and Connected Society at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently released a new digital contact-tracing technique that is based on widely-deployed Wi-Fi technology. They intend the open-source software tool to help universities and colleges deploy campus contact tracing as students return under special pandemic management rules this fall.
The project is led by the center’s director, Prashant Shenoy, a professor and associate dean of the College of In…

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