{"id":5111,"date":"2020-06-26T14:21:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T14:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5111"},"modified":"2021-01-08T10:29:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T10:29:47","slug":"uk-nhs-covid-19-contact-tracking-source-code-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/uk-nhs-covid-19-contact-tracking-source-code-available\/","title":{"rendered":"UK NHS Covid-19 Contact Tracking Source Code Available"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UK NHS has just released the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nhsx\/COVID-19-app-Android-BETA\" target=\"_blank\">Android<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nhsx\/COVID-19-app-iOS-BETA\" target=\"_blank\">iOS<\/a> source code for the UK NHS Covid-19 contact tracking app. This is the code used before the recent switch to the Google\/Apple mechanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The iOS readme explains how it works:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Our unique identifier is also known as our service characteristic. In the Bluetooth spec, devices can broadcast the availability of services. Each service can have multiple characteristics. We use a characteristic to uniquely identify our service and distinguish from all other sorts of Bluetooth devices. For every device we find with a matching characteristic, we record an identifier for the device we saw, the timestamp, and the RSSI of the Bluetooth signal, which will allow a team later on to determine who was in close proximity to individuals infected with the novel coronavirus<\/p><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK NHS has just released the Android and iOS source code for the UK NHS Covid-19 contact tracking app. This is the code used before the recent switch to the Google\/Apple mechanism. The iOS readme explains how it works: Our unique identifier is also known as our service characteristic. In the Bluetooth spec, devices &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/uk-nhs-covid-19-contact-tracking-source-code-available\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UK NHS Covid-19 Contact Tracking Source Code Available&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,270],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5976,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111\/revisions\/5976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}