Big data technology is being used to fight novel coronavirus

Tracking and prevention of Pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus supported by Beijing, Chinese mobile operator, and technology firm with the help of big data.

Telecom Giant China Unicom has formed a group-wide team of over 100 Big Data technicians and experts to provide the government with data analysis and smart applications using algorithm models, Xinhua. It provides reports of epidemic-related population flows to 31 provincial traffic and health departments on the big data report.

GeTui, a smart data provider, has analyzed the number of people traveling from Wuhan, the most hard-hit city in Central China's disease outbreak, and published their distribution density on a heat map.

According to Fang Yi, the CEO of GeTui, according to the heat map travelers from Wuhan were dispersed across a broad range of rural areas, especially in Henan, Hunan, and Sichuan provinces.

An official document asked for efforts to unite communities and village-level authorities to initiate grid-based health management, monitor residents ' wellbeing with the aid of big data and the public.

A software and cloud services company, Yonyou, has updated its cloud service platform, using the IoT (Internet of Things) and big data tech to connect the supply and demand of medical resources between medical enterprises and hospitals at the center of the epidemic.

By 29th Jan 2020, the platform had released the demand for medical supplies of 30 hospitals, including protective clothing, masks, surgical gowns, goggles, and shoe covers. Company has gathered more than 50,000 security protection suppliers on its platform to provide corresponding supply channels with big data analysis.

Chinese technology companies have given full play to their advantages to educate the public with knowledge on the epidemic through big data mining. From heat map to a hospital map, from traffic information to epidemic news.

Baidu Map application will help to check population density in business districts, hospitals, and transportation hubs, in order to avoid crowded places before going out, which is key to preventing and controlling the epidemic. When medical treatment is required, one can check the list of nearby hospitals that have set up fever clinics using the Baidu Map Application or WeChat Application.

Staying at home, one can study the latest epidemic news through smartphone. Epidemic information and protection knowledge collected with big data has been shared with nearly 80 million users every day through the Toutiao news feed mobile App.