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LoRaWAN-Based Air-Quality Monitoring & Contact Tracing In Public Buildings Shows Promise for Controlling Viruses’ Spread  

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Author Brooke Hinz

 May 5, 2022, 06:00 p.m. CEST – Combining off-the-shelf IoT technologies and equipment with new mathematical models that simulated the propagation of Covid-19, a pilot solution at a leading Paris university hospital center has demonstrated how building managers in the future can limit the spread of viruses such as Covid-19. 

The eight-month trial in 2021 included nearly 200 students and about 20 staff volunteers who wore Bluetooth-enabled badges during their classes, labs and shifts at the Faculty of Medicine (medical school) at Kremlin-Bicêtre AP-HP (Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris). 

In addition to continuous monitoring of building air-quality, the system monitored occupants’ movements and whereabouts using dedicated mathematical models developed by two Paris-Saclay University scientists. These models simulated the propagation of Covid-19 in the student population, based on contact-tracing matrices. 

Read more: https://lora-alliance.org/member-press-release/lorawan-based-air-quality-monitoring-contact-tracing-in-public-buildings

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