No contact tracing queries to date, but a lot of building occupancy interests.
1) We are investigating DNA Spaces for building occupancy and will be conducting tests in two buildings with I/R entrance sensors to compare. I would be interested in a conversation with any school that has experiences with DNA Spaces in campus environments (experience > powerpoint). Please contact me off list. An expensive undertaking — but then so are the I/R solutions. The Wi-Fi infrastructure is in place (watching fall quickly approaches). 2) Home-grown, we are providing anonymized association data to our business intelligence group, which attempts to correlate with rough building occupancy (they have a nice visualization of the campus map, just building level not floors). It can be difficult weeding out transients/drive-bys from actual people in their data analysis. The information has been used over this period by our custodians and to focus various safety efforts. In the next weeks we hope to compare that with reports from a building that has entrances equipped with entry/exit I/R cameras from the February timeframe prior to distancing. Not as elegant as #1, because the device must be associated with our network, and it only gets the associated AP (as opposed to all APs hearing from a solution from your relevant vendor like #1). Our open guest network pays off a bit here, in that Google decided it was “good”, and Android devices automatically connect to it and get VPN tunneled through Google without the user taking action to configure their device if Wi-Fi is on. 3) Now how do you convince everyone to leave Wi-Fi turned on and not be creeped out by all this? 4) If someone knows of decent services to obtain cellular location I’d also be interested. Carrier account reps have not returned my queries on their “solutions” yet. If figure if its good enough for marketing, it may provide a different less-granular metric of use. William Green, Director of Networking and Telecommunications The University of Texas at Austin | ITS | 512-475-9295 | it.utexas.edu<https://www.utexas.edu> | gr...@austin.utexas.edu<https://www.utexas.edu> We are getting multiple vendor pitches these days for contact tracing “solutions”. From Cisco, our main network vendor, their pitch relies on DNA Spaces. We don’t use that yet, and it’s no secret what is happening to many of our budgets. My question is specifically for Cisco legacy location services users. Are you all doing anything specific in anticipation of possibly needing to provide Wi-Fi location data for contact tracing? Are you being specifically asked about it by your management? Lee Badman (mobile) ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community
