Privacy-Preserving and Sustainable Contact Tracing Using Batteryless Bluetooth Low-Energy Beacons

TL;DR

This paper presents a novel contact tracing system that uses batteryless Bluetooth Low-Energy beacons to ensure privacy, sustainability, and security, addressing limitations of existing solutions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Contribution

It introduces an innovative architecture leveraging batteryless BLE beacons for privacy-preserving and sustainable contact tracing, experimentally validated.

Findings

Enhanced privacy preservation in contact tracing

Sustainable system with batteryless beacons

Experimentally validated architecture

Abstract

Contact tracing is the techno-choice of reference to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of the current approaches have severe privacy and security issues and fail to offer a sustainable contact tracing infrastructure. We address these issues introducing an innovative, privacy-preserving, sustainable, and experimentally tested architecture that leverages batteryless BLE beacons.