InLoco

History

2020: Start

At the end of March, 2020 the government of Brazil announced deployment of a system which uses a geolocation of users to limit spread of a coronavirus of COVID-19.

The Brazilian startup of InLoco developed technology of a geolocation which is usually used by the companies from such sectors as retail, for security control. Geotracking is performed via the card of locations which, on according to developers, by 30 times more precisely, than GPS.

The government of Brazil announced deployment of a system which uses a geolocation of users to limit spread of a coronavirus of COVID-19

First of all the geolocation of users was entered in the city of Recife. A system traces not less than 700,000 smartphones to estimate observance of quarantine measures. Many Brazilians, especially from the most vulnerable sectors of society, continue to work, despite risk, and the government intends to reveal these points of potential spread of a virus.

We control quarters using assessment of collective data. Such technique allows us to take a number of measures, for example, to send to problem areas cars with loudspeakers or notifications via the smartphone — the mayor Geraldo Júlio explained.

According to the CEO of InLoco André Ferraz, authorities across all Brazil filled up a startup with requests for cooperation. InLoco provides to the authorities through the whole country reports which include the ratings of social distancing on areas given on observance of measures of a quarantine in certain quarters and also places where people gather, leaving houses.

InLoco claims that they provide complete confidentiality of the provided information. They aggregate data in clusters and present only in the form of the generalized reports. It is only about identification of potentially dangerous areas which require bigger attention from the authorities for ensuring social distancing.^[1]

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