Volume 10, Number 15, November 2020

A Context-aware and Geo-based Mobile Application to Automate the Notification of Public Health Issues

  Authors

Angela Xiang¹ and Yu Sun², ¹USA, ²California State Polytechnic University, USA

  Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) is causing an ongoing pandemic. Social distancing and quarantine are the few effective methods to reduce the spreading risk of the coronavirus among people. As business starts to open up and quarantine policies become looser, the risk of COVID19 spreading becomes greater [1]. This paper describes the development of a context-aware and geo-based mobile application to automatically track an individual’s surroundings and calculate the exposure risk to a public health issue, such as COVID-19. Our application uses other user’s data and online databases with information on COVID-19 cases to calculate a percentage revealing the user’s possible risk at that location.

  Keywords

Flutter, Python Flask, Firebase, iOS, Android