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Predicting likely hotspots earlier can help to take preventive measures to reduce the number of infections.
Predictive models have shown that by acting just a week earlier, 65% of infections would have been avoided. If the same protective measures had been applied three weeks earlier that number would have reached 95% of reduced infections.

OperAI develops applications based on predictive modeling techniques and on privacy-preserving approaches to help stop the spread of pathogens, such as covid-19

« Slowing the spread of the infection is nearly as important as stopping it. »
27 March, 2020 - NY Times

Pathogen Tracer is a Multi-Device Application

OperAI is launching an application to help detect hotspots, if any, of pathogens outbreaks, including covid-19. It has three main features, including a math-based model feature to predict hotspot areas that are likely to be prone to outbreaks, ahead of time. The models have shown that by acting just a week earlier, 65% of infections would have been avoided. If the same measures had been applied three weeks earlier, that number would have reached 95% of reduced infections.

This application aims to help with tracing and predicting covid-19 spread and hotspots.
The application is based on privacy-preserving approach and ready to be launched!

The app's first version has three major features and other features will be added to its subsequent versions.
Current features are:

Pathogen spread,
Pathogen growth curve,
Hot spots/Outbreaks map (screen below) .

These features and others planned for the subsequent versions of this app will be automatic, including reading of steam data on daily or hourly basis. The app has the ability not only to predict highly likely hotspots, but will also have the ability to enrich the data by adding automatically relevant data with variables that may help to trace the disease spread.

Example - Case of Québec

Likely hotspots - Québec

Montreal currently under study to detect covid-19 patterns

Montreal covid-19 incidence

The Pathogen Tracer App traces the pathogen, such as covid-19, to help preventing people from being infected. The prediction can also be forecasted time ahead, by identifying and delimiting likely areas that are more prone to the infection and help to take preventive measures before the outbreaks occur. The app can use datasets automatically at any scale, including granular data, and at any time as the situation unfolds.

Montreal covid-19 spread

Montreal covid-19 likely hotspots

Testing using automatic reading of data on confirmed cases in Canada as of June, 20, 2020.
The app works also with granular data to pinpoint the hotspots at a finer scale of 100 meters or less.
The reading can be automatic!

US Covid-19 confirmed cases as of June 5, 2020

US Covid-19 likely hotspots based on confirmed cases as of June 5, 2020

Covid-19 Spread
April 15th, 2020

Covid-19 virus daily new confirmed cases
April 17, 2020

Comparison of the trends of confirmed new cases, over time, in
South Korea, Singapore and Japan .

Number of daily conformed new cases as of April, 25, 2020

The curves and the spread of Covid-19 are being used to develop models to predict how the disease spreads and help to take protective measures, earlier. Models have shown that by acting just a week earlier, 67% of infections would have been avoided. That number could have reached 95% of reduced infections, with the same protective measures, if they had been applied three weeks earlier.

OperAI develops edge-to-cloud complex models and applications involving the edges, the fog and the cloud, to better leverage big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

"The greatest potential for creating value will be in operations optimization—making the various processes within the factory more efficient. Overall, IoT applications in operations optimization have the potential to create value of $633 billion to $1.8 trillion per year in the factory setting in 2025.”

The Internet of Things: Mapping the Value Beyond the Hype - McKinsey & Company

Applications using end-to-end machine learning platforms and deep learning frameworks

Machine Learning (ML), which is a subset of Artificial intelligence (AI), enhances the ability of a computer to learn, from data, without being explicitly programmed end-to-end. As ML and AI learn they acquire the ability to carry out cognitive functions, such as perceiving, learning, reasoning and automatically digging deeper to identify important insights or new novel discovery. With the advance in machine learning, in particular its Deep Learning (DL) subset, ML is rapidly spreading across sectors and will continue to do so at an even higher rate with the ever increasing growth of Big Data.

This ML book, by OperAI, contains walkthrough examples with codes that are available at GitHub.