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Ranchbot’s sensors use satellite technology to monitor tank levels, trends and operation, enabling customers to check water data on their phones or computers in real time. -
A new partnership is endowing state transportation departments in Ohio and Pennsylvania with multiple data points through which to better understand traffic on their roadways and corridors.
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The new data analytics platform brings health, public safety and service information into a single view, in an effort to help officials guide substance abuse prevention efforts and resource decisions.
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A group protesting the governor’s stay-home orders at the state’s capitol in late April says the tool meant to observe the spread of the novel coronavirus should not have been used to track their whereabouts.
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Fleet management technology from Samsara gives officials in Boston a close look into the operations of hundreds of vehicles crawling across the city.
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The city has developed a public-facing dashboard dedicated to COVID-19 resources for residents and businesses. Features include the mapping of available essential services and other timely data.
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Alabama, North Dakota and South Carolina have signed agreements with the tech giants to use the tracing technology to develop COVID-19 tracking apps to help slow the spread of the virus.
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The traffic analysis firm StreetLight Data has seen sharp increases in traffic volume in beach communities, a harbinger of what officials can expect during the three-day Memorial Day weekend.
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The Bluetooth-based design would depend not only on voluntary download of the apps by users around the world but also require express consent from users to report a positive diagnosis for COVID-19 through the app.
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Health officials in Boulder County, Colo., are struggling in their attempts to collect the data needed to track the novel coronavirus. Officials believe immigration status and joblessness may be factors.
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The Hamilton County Health Department has pulled out of a plan to share coronavirus patient data with first responders and 911 dispatch. The controversial plan drew fire over concerns about privacy.
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Tech companies say their tools preserve privacy and work seamlessly on devices used by some 3 billion people, but the same features lock authorities out of collecting information they can use to track the coronavirus.
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Amazon executives and spokespeople have consistently declined to disclose a tally of the pandemic’s toll on the company’s 935,000-person workforce. Now a coalition of state attorneys general is pressing for the numbers.
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During a Washington Post Live discussion May 13, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo explained her state's plan to use contact tracing as an important aspect of their ambitious plans to reopen.
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee believes that the state is ready to begin its contact tracing initiative. Contact tracers will communicate with residents who have tested positive for the virus, as well as arranging services for people in isolation.
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After a plan to share data about novel coronavirus cases between the state health department and police agencies came to light, some officials have opted out of the agreement citing privacy concerns.
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The hope is that the shoe-leather work of contact tracing could be supplemented by the use of mobile apps. A few states have already deployed GPS location technology, and an alternate technology is in development.
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The lawsuit filed by a group of 911 dispatchers at about a dozen suburban emergency departments in Illinois to share the location of novel coronavirus patients was blocked by a Cook County judge Friday.
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Gov. Charlie Baker hasn’t ruled out using smartphone technology for contact tracing, but he said its implementation would need to be done in a way that makes people comfortable. The ACLU supports voluntary tracking apps.
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While traditional crime has dropped in the western world, complex offenses are increasing. It’s important that public safety agencies explain how and why the mission shift is underway through better transparency.
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Nationwide, contact tracing is the key to reopening businesses and resuming some form of normal life as the coronavirus pandemic begins to subside, epidemiologists say. But no federal plan or funding is on the horizon.
