Abstract
l: l: Email:l: Email:l: Regarding the highly contiguous novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), it is unsafe for health professionals, being involved in a hospital isolation ward. The healthcare workers, stationed in a contagious ward provide relentless monitoring of specific health parameters of those patients. The rate of contagion proportionately depends on the time spent by the health workers in an isolation ward. This challenging task is fairly manageable by employing promising Internet-of-Things (IoT) based autonomous robots (i.e. smart bots) thus reducing the hazards of contamination to health workers. In this research paper, we introduce a smart bot that can periodically measure the health parameters of COVID-19 patients, for instance, body temperature, oxygen saturation levels, blood pressure, respiration rate, heart rate, blood glucose level, etc. The proposed smart bot will transfer from one patient to another in a structured pattern and autonomously collect, forward, store the data of the patients for further analysis. The goal of the work is to involve a significantly inferior number of health workers in contagious wards to control contagion, thus creating stress-free environs for health workers. Moreover, smart bots will offer health professionals to pay attention to non-COVID-19 patients and make things easier for regular health check-ups of individuals in need.
Highlights
Novel Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is greatly contagious caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; formerly called 2019-nCoV) [1]
The main contributions of this paper are: a) the modular architecture of an IoT based autonomous robot has been suggested, which ensures the collection of clinical parameters from COVID-19 patients where the collected data is stored and forwarded for further analysis; b) an idea of how the smart bot moves in a contagious ward following a specific path; c) this paper provides flowcharts and proper algorithms for each building block of the proposed smart bot; d) the integration of sensors that responsible for data processing and transmission is presented in this research work
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Summary
Novel Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is greatly contagious caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; formerly called 2019-nCoV) [1]. The average number of cases caused by a COVID-19 carrier is expressed as the reproduction number R_0. In the last century of the United Nations history, the Coronavirus is highly transmissible because of having an estimated value of R_0 between 1.50 and 3.50 [2]. As of 4th March 2021, there are about 116M cases recorded from which about 91M. Revised Manuscript received on August 10, 2021 Manuscript published on August, 10 2021.
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