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Area of Science:

  • Epidemiology
  • Public Health Technology
  • Mobile Computing

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  • Emerging infectious diseases like COVID-19 and SARS pose significant global health threats.
  • Tracking mild or asymptomatic cases is challenging due to rapid spread and limited resources.
  • Effective early warning systems are crucial for mitigating epidemic propagation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a low-cost, real-time, smartphone-based epidemic early warning system.
  • To identify individuals exposed to infectious diseases and assess quarantine needs.
  • To mitigate the spread of epidemics without additional infrastructure.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing a hierarchical attention mechanism and temporal convolutional network to recognize epidemic-related voice activity.
  • Estimating social distance between users via smartphone sensors.
  • Combining Wi-Fi network logs and social distance to determine spatiotemporal contact and duration.
  • Estimating infection risk based on vocal activity, social distance, and contact time.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method effectively identifies spatiotemporal contacts and estimates infection risk.
  • Experimental validation in typical scenarios confirms the method's efficacy.
  • The system demonstrated feasibility for large-scale application and integration with existing control systems.

Conclusions:

  • A smartphone-based zero-effort epidemic warning method can effectively mitigate epidemic propagation.
  • The system's reliance on built-in smartphone sensors and absence of historical data facilitates broad adoption.
  • This approach offers a scalable and cost-effective solution for real-time epidemic surveillance.