WISeKey announces IoT early warning system for future virus outbreaks

Source: Smart Cities World Published: May 19, 2020

Global cybersecurity and IoT company, WISeKey, has announced it is teaming up with global technology organisations to develop an “early warning system” (EWS) that can help facilitate early detection of viruses and future outbreaks.

By leveraging WISeKey IoT-sensors equipped with WIShelter app capable of measuring temperature and providing geolocation of targeted quarantines, WISeKey claims its Foresight technology can help mitigate the spread of coronavirus.

Early warning system

According to WISeKey, an IoT network of interconnected systems and advances in digital certification, data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and ubiquitous connectivity, can help by providing an early warning system to curb the spread of infectious diseases.

The ideal solution might be for cities, enterprises and national governments to collectively create a massive global network of sensors, it notes. Using the network of billions of interconnected smarts IoT sensors the spread of viruses can be detected by combining the anonymised digital identity with the behaviour of individuals.'