The Pentagon will expand the use of fitness tracking devices such as smartwatches and rings in order to help stop the spread of diseases while monitoring troops health.
U.S. military is expectedThe Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit , which helps adapt commercially available technology to military use, is working to develop the expanded use of fineness trackers such as watches and rings that were successfully used for earlyThe devices were at one time banned for deployed troops amid concerns GPS trackers within the trackers could be used to reveal the locations of sensitives military installations in conflict zones.
to track the spread of COVID-19 through a unit days in advance through the DIU's Rapid Assessment of Threat Exposure project, helping mitigate the disease threat to troops that was at one time difficult for leaders to battle and had negative effects on military readiness. "With RATE, the DoD can use commercial wearables to noninvasively monitor a service member's health and provide early alerts to potential infection before it spreads," DIU project manager Jeff Schneider said in press release Friday.DIU developed is"device agnostic" and can be used across multiple device platforms, with the system being able to detect illness in service members up to 48 hours before they showed symptoms.
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