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Fitbit Software That Alerts You To People Closer Than 6 Feet

 The app senses un-recognized Bluetooth signals and makes your Fitbit vibrate when they get too close.
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The idea is to help people keep the mandatory 6 feet of separation during virus caused plaques.

Your phone recognizes your Fitbit via Bluetooth and other Bluetooth devices in its proximity.

Whether it can measure distance accurately enough to do this I don't know.

—doctorremulac3, Mar 18 2020

Inspired by this. Non-Boomer_20Proximity_20Alert
[doctorremulac3, Mar 18 2020]

Israel is deploying spy technology to track the virus https://www.cnn.com...ogy-intl/index.html
Using a phone app, they will detect where and with whom infectious people have been near. [tatterdemalion, Mar 20 2020]





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