Inspiration
Today solution is to limit the human interaction or track them thanks to smartphones and beacons. I am convinced we can do better thanks to digital twins.
What it does
It computes the probability you have to be infected by computing the "viral load" of your digital twin. When the value pass a threshold you should lock-down yourself. You can define the threshold yourself or the government can define the threshold. Our digital twin will exist in our smartphone and our smartphone only. No information is communicated except if the user wants it or if the owner is contaminated and therefore a doctor can export anonymous information as they are link to places and no more to a person or another smartphone
How the "viral load" is computed?
The formula is quite simple. What is not simple is to define the different coefficients. This is done thanks to what we know of the virus transmission from human to human plus geo-information and information linked to the time you spend close to other people. The geo-information are kept in the smartphone. To know how much the "viral load" must go up when you go somewhere, the apps download a x square kilometres map from the GIS. It is up to the user to define x. Obviously the software does not download a centered map. The time you spend close to other people is computed thanks to beacons. There is no need for the beacons to have any information. Still it would be good to have the number of people the other digital twin has met that day already.
Whenever he wants, the user can send an update to the GIS. There is no need to send the information at once. There is no need to send anything else than a time and the viral load the digital twin had at the time it was at the location.
When someone is ill, the doctor can ask the digital twin to change its "viral load" and share the information with the GIS. As usual, there is no need to send all the data at once. There is no need to disclose anything else that the fully loaded viral load. for the different place at a defined time.
Obviously the SIG is going to be updated and the "viral load" for a specific day can change everyday during the whole quarantine period. But that is taken into consideration in the viral load computation.
Remark: This way of doing is a way to compute the probability the user is ill. Consequently, the viral load should be between 0 and 100.
What next?
Anyone interested with the concept should contact me.
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