The COVID-19 pandemic has suddenly raised the need for technological solutions able to trace contacts of people and provide location-based analytics. Several countries have adopted proximity-based (short-range) technologies, such as Bluetooth, which, however, appear to be hindered by deployment issues, security leakage, lack of reliability, and data governance concerns. This article posits that 5G and beyond can play a primary role in contact tracing and group movement monitoring. Contact tracing based on 5G location-based analytics benefits from the pervasive deployment of cellular networks, the several years of effort to design cellular standards for localization and analytics, and the best practices of cellular operators to handle location data.

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5G 及其他技术用于接触者追踪


COVID-19 大流行突然提出了对能够追踪人员接触并提供基于位置的分析的技术解决方案的需求。一些国家已经采用了基于邻近（短距离）的技术，例如蓝牙，然而，该技术似乎受到部署问题、安全漏洞、缺乏可靠性和数据治理问题的阻碍。本文认为 5G 及其他技术可以在接触者追踪和群体活动监控中发挥主要作用。基于 5G 位置分析的接触者追踪受益于蜂窝网络的普遍部署、多年来设计用于定位和分析的蜂窝标准的努力，以及蜂窝运营商处理位置数据的最佳实践。