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Development of Low Cost Monitoring Device for Individuals in Quarantine Kumar Satyam1, Tejas Sudhir Chaudhari2 1Junior
Undergraduate, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, NIFFT Ranchi, India Undergraduate, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, NIFFT Ranchi, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------2Junior
Abstract - Coronavirus disease 2019 (abbreviated as COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARs-CoV-2). The disease was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei Province, and has since spread globally resulting in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. As of November 1st 2020, more than 4 million cases of COVID-19 have been identified, resulting in the deaths of more than 250,000 people globally. Across the world, authorities have been calling for Social Distancing protocols in order to stop the spread of the virus. Since no vaccination or cure has been discovered yet, prevention is the only plausible solution to minimize its impact. In order to check for this, it has been required for people who have been infected or suspected of infection to remain in quarantine or self isolation for a particular amount of time. However it is difficult to ensure the execution of such orders due to multiple reasons. One of the reasons is the scarcity and expensiveness of a monitoring device. Currently monitoring devices cost more than 10,000 INR. This project proposes to make available a monitoring device with 10% of the current cost . Key Words: Geo-fencing, Social Distancing, GPS, GSM, Electronic Tagging
1. INTRODUCTION The Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of COVID-19 has been estimated to be around 1-3%. The Basic Reproduction Number (Ro) has been estimated at 1.4-3.8. This number can be used to understand the number of cases one infected person shall generate. However, the disease can remain asymptomatic up to several days in which an infected person can infect many others. This implies that the virus possesses greater risk, not because of how virulent it is but because how contagious it is. Since this is a novel virus, humans are not immune to it. Therefore the entire human species is susceptible to it as per the latest research on the disease. Due to this, it can spread like a wildfire. Hence the only solution as of current time to mitigate the effects of the pandemic is by slowing the spread of the disease. Governments across the world have called for Social Distancing measures to be adopted by the common people along with other common sanitation techniques such as hand washing etc. Social Distancing helps flatten the curve (slows the rate of spreading) and makes sure that the health infrastructure can handle the pandemic. (Figure 2) In order to slow the spread, people with travel history and perceived risk of contagiousness have been advised to keep themselves in self-isolation for many days. People who have been infected are also kept in quarantine. However it has been difficult to monitor if this directive is actually being implemented. A lot of people from different sections of the society have violated the issued isolation protocols putting the communities at risk. Currently the Police use mobile cell phone tracking to monitor this. As mobile phones can be left at home while the person may still go out and violate the self isolation directive, it is not a very effective method of monitoring. Moreover, many people in India lack the financial means to possess a Smartphone. Since Electronic Tagging is highly costly, it hasn’t been used either in the implementation of monitoring individuals under selfisolation or under quarantine. Electronic Tagging is defined as the attaching of electronic markers to people or goods for monitoring purposes, e.g. to track offenders under house arrest or to deter shoplifters. Time and again, it has been used by health authorities also to mitigate pandemics. Many countries, for example Bahrain has used watch like electronic devices to monitor the isolation
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