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FreMEn contra Covid – collecting and sharing data about the busyness of public places

Innovative response

FreMEn Adviser is an app that will advise users when to visit public places to avoid, for example, regularly crowded shops, parks and playgrounds. Based on data on human concentration, the app will recommend to their users when public places are under-visited, and therefore with a potentially lower risk of infection. The principle of application is based on the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation on social distancing and is based on revolutionary artificial intelligence research. In order to precisely predict when and where crowds will form, FreMEn Adviser needs enough data to learn and improve.

Specific issues addressed and anticipated impact

FremEn contra Covid is a project that combines two apps. The FreMEn Adviser app will advise you when to visit public places to avoid, for example, regularly crowded shops, parks and playgrounds. In order to precisely predict when and where crowds will form, FreMEn Adviser needs enough data to learn and improve. Users can collect this data via the additional FreMEn Explorer application.

Organisations/institutions involved

Czech Technical University in Prague, Chronorobotics Laboratory

Level(s) of government:
  • Private Sector

Issues being addressed:

  • Real-time data collection, sharing, and analysis

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Date Submitted:

5 June 2020