IIT-B develops app to track corona violators

Amid reports of patients with history of international travel jumping quarantine, the department of the Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) of Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) has developed a mobile application which can be used by the officials to track violations by the people placed in isolation as a precautionary measure taken to check the spread of coronavirus.

Developed by a CSE team led by Prof. Bhaskaran Raman and Prof. Kameswari Chebrolu, the Mobile App “can potentially be used by officials for checking quarantine adherence”.

“SAFE has 3 dimensions of verification: location, identity, and time. SAFE is capable of detecting cases where the person may leave the phone and go outside quarantine himself/ herself (this is unlike a few “new” solutions for quarantine checking),” Prof Raman and Prof Chebrolu said.