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Italy develops ‘iFeel-You’ bracelet for social distancing

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The Genoa-based Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) has come up with iFeel-You, an intelligent bracelet which will help users respect social distancing rules.
The bracelet has been developed as the measures for safeguarding against the coronavirus are gradually being lifted.
The technology was launched at a video press conference which involved the participation of Liguria governor Giovanni Toti and IIT President Giorgio Metta.
Metta claimed that the bracelet can measure social distance in a much more precise manner than a mobile app and highlighted that the bracelet did not track geolocation hence had little effect on privacy.
He explained that the bracelet uses a radio signal only when another bracelet is approaching and does not use GPS hence cannot not keep track of the user’s locations.
The bracelet starts to vibrate when another person wearing the same bracelet comes too close to the user.
Metta declared that soon other features such as capability to measure body temprature and even caculate the users oxygen levels would be included in the bracelet.

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