Rokwire. “Let’s Make Smart Communities a Reality.” Whitepaper. May 2021.

Read this whitepaper to learn about Rokwire, an interdisciplinary project of the Smart, Healthy Communities Initiative at the University of Illinois. Rokwire is building an open source digital ecosystem for mobile devices to enable the smart, healthy communities of the future.

Vikram Sharma Mailthody et al., Safer Illinois and RokWall: Privacy Preserving University Health Apps for COVID-19. March 2021. (Preprint)

This paper analyzes two computing infrastructures (Safer Illinois and RokWall) under development at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign to track and mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

Ranoa, D.R. et al., MedRxiv, June 9, 2022. Nature Communications: 13: 3207. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.03.21261548

In Fall 2020, universities saw extensive transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among their populations, threatening health of the university and surrounding communities, and viability of in-person instruction. Here we report a case study at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where a multimodal “SHIELD: Target, Test, and Tell” program, with other nonpharmaceutical interventions, was employed to keep classrooms and laboratories open.