'GoCoronaGo' to 'Sampark-o-Meter': How IISc, IITs are battling Covid-19
Amid the countrywide lockdown due to coronavirus , students and faculty of premier institutes like the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are working round the clock. They have developed mobile applications, robots and ventilators to help the country in its fight against coronavirus. The app "GoCoronaGo", developed by a team at IISc, can help identify people who may have crossed paths with Covid-19 suspects. "The app will help identify people who may have crossed paths with Covid-19 positive individuals or suspects by tracking their interactions in the past using bluetooth and GPS. It uses temporal network analytics in the backend to understand the risk propensity even for distant contacts, understand disease spread and identify high-risk people who are likely to contract and spread the virus," Tarun Rambha, a faculty member at IISc, told PTI. Read More