Mobile Geo-Fencing Triggers for Alerting  Entries Into COVID-19 Containment Zones Using IoT

Mobile Geo-Fencing Triggers for Alerting Entries Into COVID-19 Containment Zones Using IoT

M. V. Ramana Rao, Thondepu Adilakshmi, M. Gokul Venkatesh, Jothikumar R
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6870-5.ch005
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Abstract

In a thickly populated nation like India, it is hard to forecast community transmission of COVID-19. Hence, a number of containment zones had been recognized all over the country separated into red, orange, and green zones, individually. People are restricted to move into these containment zones. This chapter focuses on informing the public about the containment zone when they are in travel and also sends an alert to the police when a person enters the containment zone without permission using the containment zone alert system. This chapter suggests a containment zone alert system by means of geo-fencing technology to identify the movement of public, deliver info about the danger to the public in travel and also send an alert to the police when there is an entry or exit detected in the containment zone by the use of location-based services (LBS). By creating a fence virtually called geo-fence at the containment zones established based on the government info, this system monitors public movements like entry and exit to fence.
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I. Introduction

THE COVID-19, an abbreviation for “Coronavirus Disease-2019”, is a breathing disease brought about by the serious intense lung disorder coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), an infectious infection having a place with a group of single-abandoned, positive-sense RNA infections known as coronavirus. Much like the flu infection, SARS-CoV-2 assaults the respiratory framework, causing infirmities, for example, hack, fever, fatigue, and shortness of breath. While the specific wellspring of the infection is obscure, researchers have planned the genome grouping of the SARS-CoV-2, which normally determines its quality sources from bats and rodents Cascella, M., (2021). The COVID-19 was first answered to influence human life in Wuhan City, in the Hubei territory of China in December 2019. Since at that point, the COVID-19 has fanned out quickly all through the rest of the world, denoting its quality in 213 nations furthermore, free domains. As per the WHO, the current worldwide tally1 of affirmed coronavirus cases remains at 2,285,210 while the loss of life has arrived at 155,124. The quick ascent in the quantity of COVID-19 occurrences around the world has provoked the requirement for guaranteed countermeasures to check the terrible impacts of the COVID-19 flare-up. Steffens, I. (2020) The later center east breathing condition coronavirus (MERS-CoV) contamination of 2012. The SARS-CoV flare-up started in the Guandong area of China and later spread to more than 37 nations around the world, causing over 8000 diseases and around 774 passings Singhal, T. (2020). COVID-19 shows with scientific highlights going from the asymptomatic express (no indications) to intense respiratory trouble disorder (ARDS) and various organ brokenness disorder (MODS). As per the aftereffects of an ongoing report led by the WHO in a joint effort with China, of the 55,924 labs affirmed COVID-19 cases that remained analyzed, a larger part displayed clinical attributes such as fever, dry hack, weariness, and sputum creation.With this just a bunch of patients displayed indications, for example, sore throat, cerebral pain, myalgia, and windedness, while indications, for example, sickness, nasal blockage, hemoptysis, looseness of the bowels, and conjunctival blockage were found to be exceptionally uncommon Chamola, V., et al (2020).

In a thickly peopled nation like India, it is extremely hard to forestall the public transmission in any event, during lockdown without social mindfulness and prudent steps occupied by the individuals. As of late, a few regulation zones had been distinguished all through the nation and partitioned into red, orange, and green zones, separately. The red zones show the disease hotspots, orange zones mean certain contamination, and green zones demonstrate a territory with no contamination Mallik, R., et al (2020). Containment zones were significant for distinguishing pockets that need basic intercessions for centered administration of COVID-19. In urban zones, regardless of whether there remained a solitary or under five COVID-19 positive cases, the road ought to be divided as a regulation zone, the request said. On the off chance that the road is long, a sensible bouncemight be carried under the control zone to limit development. In-country zones, “the residence” of the villa was to be differentiated as a regulation zone. In urban regions, if the bunch (at least five COVID-19 positive cases) fell inside the district, the district wherein the living arrangements of the positive cases were found ought to be delineated as the regulation zones. “If the home occurs to be the outskirt of the region, at that point the abutting regions may likewise be remembered for the regulation zone,” the rule said. In-country regions, the entire town or the gathering of towns anywhere the bunching of cases was accounted for ought to be delineated as regulation zone/zones. The rundown would be reconsidered on a week after week premise or prior. In light of the field criticism and extra investigation at State-level, These States may assign extra red or orange zones as proper.

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