IIT Bombay has developed an application named Corontine, which helps in identifying and isolate the carriers of Covid-19.

IIT Bombay has developed an application named Corontine, which helps in identifying and isolating the carriers of Covid-19. The platform Corontine has been built to to track potential/suspected (asymptomatic) carriers. Corontine is flexible, comprehensive, scalable and ready-to-use.’

IIT Bombay has reached out to the authorities and further have sent out the message to all concerns about the same. Prof Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay and Prof Manjesh Hanawal, Department of IEOR, IIT Bombay are the contact person for the same.

IIT Bombay: About the Corontine app

This app is designed by a dedicated team at the campus with the help of some professionals and experiences alumni, the platform and app can help the authorities to register the asymptomatic carriers and track them to precautions respectively.

The app uses geo-fence and would automatically generate alerts if the user moves out of the quarantined zone.

The platform also has provisions for marking the zines into regions, etc. The app and platform have been made available on corontine.in. Full features would be available only against authorised login credentials.

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