New Zealand tests Covid-19 blast detection technology at border
New Zealand border guards have started testing an app to detect Covid-19 before the first symptoms of the disease known as noise appear. The platform was developed by the artificial intelligence company Datamine (AI) and is connected to smartwatches and other wearable devices to measure values such as heart rate, temperature or oxygen saturation. According to Datamin, the app can detect the warning signs of Covid-19 up to three days before symptoms appear with an accuracy of up to 90%. The app creates a custom baseline for each user from the wearable device's data set and uses AI to detect physiological changes that can indicate the user is sick before they feel bad. The platform is not device specific and can run on many different pieces of hardware. Up to 500 border guards can volunteer to participate in the process, which will run until early May, to see how the platform works in real-world environments. Given that new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand are only noticed af