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Mitigating the Spread of COVID-19 Using Internet of Things: A Holistic Approach

Mitigating the Spread of COVID-19 Using Internet of Things: A Holistic Approach

M. N. Suma (BMS College of Engineering, India) and Rajanikanth Kashi Nagaraj (BMS College of Engineering, India)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-8913-0.ch009
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Abstract

The outbreak of Covid-19 has motivated a wide spectrum of people, including researchers, engineers, doctors, and students, to look for solutions to mitigate the crisis. The authors propose and implement a solution that provides a first-line defense to the spread of the Covid-19 virus by minimizing the risk of new infections with a multifold approach that involves providing a technology-based support framework. The system solution operates in public places which provide fertile ground for spread of the virus due to high probability of contact between symptomatic or asymptomatic Covid-19 infected people. The smart system provides active support by the use of intelligent sanitizer dispenser system, and at the same time, provides pro-active support by providing people appropriate indications when the system detects that such mitigation measures are being violated. The system indirectly influences social awareness among the people as it detects face without mask and prompts to wear mask.
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Prior Work

The entry of COVID-19 virus produced a number of solutions to circumvent the problems and several mitigation mechanisms were conceived. (Juhui, 2020) proposes computer vision and transfer learning architectures for computation during the detection process. The system focuses on identifying whether a person is wearing a mask in an image captured by a camera or inside real-time video streams by using popular deep learning libraries such as OpenCv, keras, Pytorch (Ideas2IT, 2021).

A fully automated hand sanitizer dispensing machine which could prove to be a vital resource in the efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus has been proposed by a Pune based startup. It dispenses sanitizer, however, there is no automation to refill it. There is no feature to recognize a person wearing a mask and provide warnings (EH News Bureau, 2021).

A design of an automatic hand sanitizer dispenser system that is compatible with various containers was developed by scholar Lee Juhui. The proposed device becomes possible to avoid large numbers of people coming in contact with the pump handle, thus preventing fomite viral transmission and making the use of hand sanitizer much more convenient. Furthermore, it can operate properly with various designs of sanitizer containers (Vinitha, 2020).

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