The right minimum distance via app

Last week, the SmartFactoryOWL was all about the fight against Corona: The non-profit start-up "Protego" tested their new app for easier implementation of "Social Distancing" together with the Institute for Industrial Information Technology (inIT) of the OWL University of Applied Sciences.
Whether in supermarkets, drugstores, at the bakery or in buses and trains: everywhere we are advised to keep at least 1.5 meters distance to our fellow human beings. In practice, however, more and more people are noticing that this distance is often forgotten or simply cannot be maintained. Founder Andreas Schröder and his developer Nikolaus Schauersberger also recognized this and went straight to implementing their app.
This app is based on Bluetooth and determines the distance between devices. If two devices, for example two cell phones of people, get too close to each other in public space, an alarm is triggered and the minimum distance is pointed out step by step. Before the app, which is to be made available for free download, can be published, it must of course be put through its paces. For this purpose, inIT provided the test environment at SmartFactoryOWL and actively participated in the stress testing.
 "When the request came in, I immediately tried everything to make testing possible with us. I think the app has quite a lot of potential and can help people to behave properly in their new everyday life. Everything that can be done at the moment to find solutions in times of this crisis should be tried, in my opinion," reports Alexander Kuhn, research associate at inIT.