A new app has been created in the Okanagan to help companies around the world enforce physical distancing between their employees. “We realized we could come up with something fairly quickly that will address … physical distancing,” said Clive Ross, Datalink Systems International’s CEO.
The app, TooClose, will provide safe-distancing monitoring and will alert when two or more people come closer than the prescribed two metres.
Loud beeps will emanate from the employees’ phones and will alert them to move apart. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] “It basically works on proximity of Bluetooth signals, and we are able to use algorithms, fairly precisely, to say if you’re within six to eight feet or two