PRIVATE CONTACT SUMMARY AGGREGATION
Do your part to reduce the spread of contagious diseases
Maintaining physical distance helps prevent the spread of contagious diseases. Poirot measures physical distancing and contact events while preserving your privacy.
(Alpha version coming soon)
HOW DOES POIROT WORK?
PRIVATE, AGGREGATE DATA COLLECTION
Actionable Information to Decision Makers
Poirot collects aggregate statistics based on time, location, and broad individual attributes (e.g., essential worker). This can allow decision makers to introduce smarter, more targeted policies that offer more flexibility without sacrificing safety.
Individualized User Feedback
Individuals users can learn about their own statistics related to physical distancing as well as long with the aggregate statistics. This can help them better understand and improve how they are adhering to physical distancing policies.
Privacy for All
All the statistics will be collected in a privacy-preserving manner. By relying on techniques such as multiparty computation and differential privacy, Poirot ensures that the statistics cannot be linked back to any individual.
POIROT IS FOR INDIVIDUALS
YOUR DATA CAN HELP SAVE OTHERS
Stay safe. Keep others safe too.
Maintaining physical distance helps prevent the spread of contagious diseases. Poirot measures physical distancing and contact events while preserving your privacy.
Protect Yourself.
Poirot uses Bluetooth to measure distance between individuals and flags a contact event whenever you get too close. You can see where your own contact events happen, and where the “hot spots” are in your community so you know to stay away. All data is aggregated for privacy – only you can see your own data.
Protect Others.
No one can see your individual data – only aggregate data for the whole community. Help give others a better picture of where contact events are happening by turning your location ON. You can always toggle off your location if you don’t want your contact events to be associated with specific locations – Poirot will still let you know if you’ve gotten too close!
ABOUT POIROT
BY DUKE FOR DUKE
Developed by researchers at Duke University.
Our team consists of a group of researchers at Duke University from the Computer Science Department and the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and Duke Global Health Institute. It is also advised by an expert panel in global health.
Poirot is supported by the National Science Foundation
