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SheltieLover

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Tue Apr 7, 2020, 06:08 PM Apr 2020

New app from University of Memphis tracks social distancing

[link:https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/new-app-from-university-of-memphis-tracks-social-distancing/522-2c7dffc9-9461-4cf5-9cbf-61e66ba3f64d|

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Want to track your social distancing? There’s an app for that. Researchers at the University of Memphis created MContain.org.

The researchers at the MD2K Center for Excellence at the U of M say creating an app for your phone usually takes months, but they worked around the clock and created this one in about two weeks.

Its creators say MContain.org uses location and blue tooth technologies in smart phones. It can do everything from detecting how close you've gotten to someone, to how much time you've spent around other users.

To reduce to chance of entering crowded places, the app can display the level of crowding at busy spots on a map. It even has the possibility of alerting people of potential exposure locations.

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