Geneva, Switzerland, May 20 2020: Security and IoT company WISeKey International Holding Ltd has said it was partnering with global technology organisations to provide an Internet of Things (IoT) early warning system that can be used to facilitate early detection of viruses and future outbreaks.
WISeKey is teaming with several leading partners for the development of an IoT Early Warning System (EWS) designed with the objective of saving lives through early detection as one of the main technology integrations to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
It said in a press release that leveraging WISeKey IoT-sensors equipped with WIShelter app capable of measuring temperature and providing geolocation of targeted quarantines, the tech “can help mitigate the spread the coronavirus.”
EWS is a core type of data driven IoT systems. The potential benefits of using a semantic-type EWS include easier sensor and data source plug-and-play, simpler, richer, and more dynamic metadata-driven data analysis and easier service interoperability and orchestration.
The first phase of the ultra-low-power Bluetooth 5 secure beacon implementation was developed using WISeKey’s VaultIC407, the RSL10 and N34TS108 temperature sensor from ON Semiconductor, as well as Tatwah’s BLE IT-005 IP68 class Beacon. The device has a long battery life. The secure implementation allows replay attack protection, device clone protection, VaultIC absence detection, revocation capability, measurement validity check, and true temperature display.