Smartphone-based GNSS Method for Covid-19 Information on Android (Case Study: Surabaya City)

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is the respiration diasease that can be transmitted from individual to another. There have been 3906 ODP (individual on monitoring) cases, 3303 PDP (patient under surveillance) cases, 2918 confirmed cases, 766 recovered patients, and 282 deaths in Surabaya, as recorded on June 6th, 2020. GIS (Geographical information system) is a science based on computer software, to provide digital form information and the earth’s geographic surface analysis. GNSS (global navigation satellite system) is the positioning system method using satellite, which can be used by a lot of people at the same time and designed to obtain three-dimension position. The combination of Smartphone’s GNSS positioning and the spatial data of Covid-19 distribution in Surabaya is expected to be able to give useful information about health condition toward citizen, especially about Covid-19 pandemic via application based. The outcome is a color-level based distribution of Covid-19 cases which can be accessed android smartphone. Sub district with the highest rate of Covid-19 cases does not necessarily have proper health protocol facilities, and so does other sub districts with high rates of Covid-19 cases. In fact, none of Covid-19 referral hospital located in the sub district with high rate of Covid-19 cases. Based on the results of the questionnaire, the applications namely “Cegah Covid-19 Surabaya” has received good responses. This application is currently able to run on Android smartphones with the versions of Android 10, Pie, Oreo, Nougat, Marshmallow, and Lollipop.