Mind The Gap

2020: Start of Mind The Gap - the application for observance of a distance at work

At the beginning of September, 2020 it became known of application launch of Mind The Gap which is intended for informing users on need to hold a distance. The solution was developed by the London startup of Hack Partners, the British company Network Rail became the first user.

The Mind The Gap application uses superhigh frequency sound frequency waves and signals of Bluetooth to measure a distance between employees and to inform them on need to follow statutory rules to avoid infection with COVID-19 coronavirus.

The Mind The Gap application which forces employees to observe a distance at work is started

Mind The Gap is widely used among the staff of Network Rail, applications are connected to use also other companies. The security director, to technical and engineering issues of Network Rail company Martin Frobisher noted:

I immensely am proud of all our employees for that role which they played in support of stability during a pandemic. When we began to plan return to office work, we attentively studied all opportunities which would allow to keep health of our employees safe further.

To start use of Mind The Gap employees need to load the application on the smartphone and to set desirable distance according to government directives. At operation of the solution users receive the notification when other user of the application appears in too short distance. Functioning of Mind The Gap does not require active connection to the Internet as the application is used by Bluetooth and unheard superhigh-frequency sounds for calculation of distance between phones. Hack Partners said that the accuracy of calculations is 6-8 cm.

The Mind The Gap application does not keep track of location of users, does not collect confidential data and does not transfer to the third parties, developers claim.^[1]

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