Infectious Disease Proliferation Prevention System
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Solution Overview
Problem
The rapid spread of infectious diseases across the globe due to increased global mobility and the difficulty in accurately detecting individuals who have visited infectious disease-affected areas, leading to potential widespread damage and significant economic losses.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing wireless communication information from mobile terminals to collect and manage data on individuals who have visited infectious disease-affected areas, providing alerts and notifications to prevent the spread of diseases by classifying and managing this information through a network of mobile communication systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If voluntary reporting is implemented for infectious disease-affected areas, then visitor awareness and cooperation improve, but detection accuracy and reliability deteriorate due to lack of mandatory enforcement
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces mobile communication systems as an intermediary between travelers and health authorities. The system automatically detects traveler locations through wireless communication data without requiring direct visitor participation, thus maintaining reliability while improving ease of operation through automated detection
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual reporting mechanisms with automated electronic detection systems. Instead of relying on travelers to manually report their locations, the system uses mobile network data to automatically identify and track travelers who have visited affected areas, significantly improving detection accuracy
2Reliability
If mandatory reporting laws are enforced, then detection reliability improves, but ease of operation and visitor cooperation deteriorate due to legal constraints
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables travelers to be passively monitored through their mobile devices without requiring active participation. The detection system automatically tracks traveler locations using existing mobile network infrastructure, allowing travelers to be monitored without them needing to do anything, thus maintaining cooperation while ensuring reliability
Solution Approach 2:
Mobile communication systems serve as an intermediary that automatically collects and transmits traveler location data to health authorities without requiring direct interaction or legal compulsion from travelers, thus maintaining ease of operation while achieving reliable detection
3Measurement precision
If global monitoring systems are deployed to detect travelers, then detection accuracy improves, but device complexity and system infrastructure requirements worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent leverages mobile communication systems that already serve multiple functions (voice, data, messaging) to also perform infectious disease surveillance. This multi-functional approach allows the system to achieve accurate traveler detection without adding dedicated infrastructure, thus improving measurement precision while limiting increases in device complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses mobile network operators as intermediaries who already have established infrastructure for collecting and managing subscriber data. By utilizing their existing systems for location tracking and data management, the patent achieves accurate global monitoring without requiring entirely new complex infrastructure
4Loss of time
If real-time tracking of mobile terminals is implemented, then response time and notification speed improve, but loss of information and data privacy concerns worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the specific location information needed for disease surveillance from the broader mobile network data. By focusing solely on detection of travelers in affected areas rather than comprehensive monitoring of all traveler activities, the system achieves fast response time while minimizing data collection and thus reducing privacy concerns
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies selective monitoring with different levels of data collection based on location and context. The system tracks location data specifically when travelers are in or near affected areas, rather than continuously monitoring all travelers everywhere, thus achieving timely notifications for relevant cases while reducing overall information loss and privacy intrusion
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is system for preventing proliferation of an infectious disease comprising: at least one processor; and a memory including at least one command in which at least one processor can be executed, wherein at least one processor: collects infectious disease information; receives consent for a collection and use of personal information from a service user which wants to use an infectious disease proliferation prevention service; transmits, to a plurality of mobile communication systems, the infectious disease information and the consent for a collection and use of personal information; receives, from the plurality of mobile communication systems, information on a mobile terminal which has visited a contaminated area, calculated on the basis of the infectious disease information, the consent for a collection and use of personal information and wireless communication information of the mobile terminal; and classifies, by infectious diseases, and manages the information on a mobile terminal which has visited a contaminated area, received from the plurality of mobile communication systems.