22/04/2020
A Visakhapatnam-based software solutions company, Fluentgrid ,in collaboration with United Nations Development Programme (), has deployed technological solutions to fight the Covid threat in the city. Similar technologies have earlier been applied as part of the national Smart Cities Mission. The technology is currently being used in Lucknow and Vishakhapatnam.
Areas where the technology is being used include monitoring streets and public places for violations during the lockdown , guiding teams working on the field, directing field staff through a field responder mobile app to conduct surveys, tracing known suspects, monitoring people under quarantine and ensuring sanitation, collaborating with various to trace and isolate suspects and handling logistics.
Through the citizens’ mobile app, the technology helps to self-diagnose, self-quarantine, report suspects, report cases of black marketeering, report quarantine violators, provide telemedicine services to citizens, especially those in quarantine and alert citizens through public address systems and message displays.
in times of Corona
Source: The Times of India
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