Development of Wearable System to Help Preventing the Spread of Covid-19 in Public Indoor Area

Smart wearables as a part of the Internet of Things nowadays gaining confidence in our daily lives because of its accessibility and simplicity. Today, with the outbreak of Coronavirus around the world, a smart wearable device can become another solution to help slowing the virus spreading by ensuring public health and social measures. In this paper, a system consisting of distance detector and touchless door access is proposed to help the personal, physical and social distancing measures practice in a public indoor area. A BLE positioning method based on RSSI localization is used to ensure the physical distancing around the user. WPA2 and MAC address-based authentication for the touchless door access is used to restrict and trace the visitor of the indoor area. The system is implemented in ESP microcontroller. A proof of concept is conducted to see if the functionality of the system already satisfied the public health and social measures practice. The results show that only registered devices can give a signal to open the door and the device can guarantee the physical distance around the user with 4.51% error in indoor area.

@article{Arrahmah2021,
  title     = {Development of Wearable System to Help Preventing the Spread of Covid-19 in Public Indoor Area},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {12},
  number    = {11},
  year      = {2021},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Annisa Istiqomah Arrahmah and Surya Ramadhan},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121166},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121166}
}