Contact Tracing: open source tools to test the physical capabilities of the Bluetooth service
Channel: reelyActive
Date: 2020-04-15

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, on April 10th, 2020, Apple and Google announced a collaboration on a Contact Tracing service for mobile peer-to-peer proximity detection and identification using Bluetooth.

This video presents the following open source tools which developers can use to evaluate the physical capabilities of the proposed service, specifically the characteristics of detection and range estimation with Bluetooth signal strength (RSSI).

For an overview and comparison of Contact Tracing Architectures visit: https://reelyactive.github.io/diy/contact-tracing-architectures/

The open source code for the Puck.js and Bangle.js Espruino devices can be found at https://github.com/reelyactive/espruino-apps/

The open source Pareto Anywhere Web App which uses the recent Web Bluetooth Scanning feature can be found at https://reelyactive.github.io/pareto-anywhere/

The Sniffypedia entry for the Contact Tracing service can be found at https://sniffypedia.org/Service/Contact_Tracing/

Instructions to install Pareto Anywhere on a Raspberry Pi can be found at https://reelyactive.github.io/diy/pi-suite/

See also DirAct proximity interaction software for battery-powered beacons at https://reelyactive.github.io/diract/