Oklahoma State University is tracking location data of students and staff who are signed on to campus Wi-Fi routers to try to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
At the gym, a card swipe documented his presence while he worked out."Got some guys hanging out in here," Moore said.
But the technology goes even further: Using the school’s more than 5,000 Wi-Fi hot spots, it allows staff to determine not only what building, but also what floor and even what room a sick student may have entered. “If we know based on Wi-Fi access that another student wasn't in that class that day, we can exclude those from the contact tracing efforts,” Hawkins said.
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