Bluetooth for Disease Control (Phone-based Contact Tracing)
Bluetooth for Disease Control (Phone-based Contact Tracing)
- Subject: Bluetooth for Disease Control (Phone-based Contact Tracing)
- From: Zsombor Szabo via Bluetooth-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 11:01:29 +0200
Dear Bluetooth Developers,
I'm reaching out on behalf of the COVID-19 Risk Team (
https://www.covid19risk.com/), a group of volunteers with the mission to
slow the spread of infectious diseases like COVID-19 with crowdsourced data.
Bluetooth can provide contact tracing, even between strangers. Instead of
requiring thousands of healthcare workers to do contact tracing manually
(as is the current approach in China), the process will be cost-free.
We plan to build an iOS app that respects the users' privacy and works even
in the background. Quickly.
Question:
Is there any way to enable service discoverability between two
background-running apps on iOS? Currently, it works between two
foreground-running apps, and between a foreground-running and a
background-running app, but not between two background-running apps.
Combining this with the background significant location change API might
help a little, but we're afraid it would miss a fair number of contact
events.
Looking forward to your feedback,
Zsombor
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