Proximity detection, distance estimation & data sharing

Herald provides reliable Bluetooth communication and range finding across a wide range of mobile devices, wearables, and beacons allowing Contact Tracing and other applications to have regular and accurate information to make them highly effective.

Wide phone support
Wide phone support

97.5% of phones worldwide can use the Herald Protocol

Detect nearby devices
Detect nearby devices

100% detection of devices in the foreground and background

Regular distance readings
Regular distance readings

Regularly read signal strength and convert to distance

Log other readings
Log other readings

Temperature, gas concentration, or estimate disease risk exposure

Interoperate
Interoperate

A wide range of devices and application can interoperate using Herald

License

All Herald works are Copyright 2020-2023 Herald Project Contributors

The code for Herald (Android, iOS, C++, Analysis Scripts, Calibration tool) are Apache-2.0 licensed. The documentation for Herald, including this website, are under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License.

See LICENSE.txt and NOTICE.txt for details.

The Herald Project Team

Herald Project is released as open source software and provides community support through our GitHub project page. If you encounter an issue or have a question, feel free to reach out on the GitHub issues page for Herald Project.

The Herald project team welcomes contributions from the community — please see our contributing documentation.

Getting Started

To help you get started, see the documentation.