How Singapore Has Kept the Coronavirus Off Campus

SMU Associate Professor of Information Systems Rajesh Krishna Balan said, "We have not had any outbreak in the universities because the government has taken very good care of the policies;" As reopening proceeds, SMU is planning more face-to-face classes. To control campus crowds, the universities have relied heavily on technology. It began last spring with the Singapore Spacer project, which used public Wi-Fi networks to collect anonymised location data from people's mobile phones. The project, developed by Michael Chee of NUS. and Assoc Prof Balan, went live in April as a way to monitor crowds "as passively as possible and with minimum inconvenience;' Prof Chee said.