Design and development of an IoT based intelligent multi parameter screening system

Abstract

The SARS-CoV-2 or shortly COVID-19, is a viral disease which causes serious lung fever and hugely impacts different body parts from mild to critical depending on tolerant immune system. As the virus multiplies through human-to-human contact, it has affected our lives in a devastating way, including the vigorous pressure on the public health system, the world economy, education sector, workplaces, and shopping malls. Viral spreading of this virus can only be prevented by early detection of positive cases and to treat infected patients as quickly as possible. As many businesses, banks, gymnasiums, and stores etc., are using temperature screening as the primary step to assess for possible COVID-19 infection. Moreover, the proper hand sanitization is the very effective method to limit the outspread of this virus. This paper proposes the design and development of a fully automated low-cost portable electronic system in the form of a robot named CovBot that can be installed in the above-mentioned places by incorporating the mechanisms to automatically detect the body temperature, store the details directly to cloud so as to get the data latter by the authorities, to control/restrict the entry, a hand sanitization dispenser unit, auto alert to refill the sanitizer, a mobile display unit etc. Whole system can be managed by a mobile application. The system is controlled using an Arduino-Uno development board. The mobile and the microcontroller system is wirelessly communicated and that to cloud is done by IoT facility. Once this system is implemented, the primary concern and the initial screening associated to COVID-19 can be fully resolved. Comparing to other systems CovBot is cost effective and can be easily installed and operated.