Journal of Information and Computational Science ISSN: 1548-7741

Protection System for Medical Workers from (COVID-19)

patients Using IOT
Tehmina khan1,Rana mudassar rasool*2, Muhammad Amir Nawaz3
Muhammad tariq4

Department of computer science Institute of Southern Punjab Multan, Pakistan1,2,3

Department of computer science The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan4

[email protected],2, [email protected], [email protected]

Abstract

Since appearing in Wuhan, China last December, the novel coronavirus has spread to at
least 183 countries and regions. On February 12, 2020, WHO officially named the disease
caused by the novel coronavirus as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).This disease
distributing from human to human very quickly. More than 1.29 million cases have been
reported worldwide. Many doctors affecting from this disease due to lack of safety gears. IoT is
the internetwork of physical objects or “things” that are embedded with software and sensors to
collect and send data between them and central servers with minimum human intervention. This
term support in hospital system and(COVID-19) patient to decrease the spreading this disease
from patient to doctor. In this method, IoT used in medical areas like real-time monitoring,
patient information management, medical emergency management of (COVID-19) patient .This
method is centered on deep learning techniques that will definitely help the doctors to detect the
disease (COVID-19) safely. The thermal camera technology is integrated to the smart helmet
and combined with IoT technology for monitoring of the screening process to get the real time
data. In addition, the proposed system is Equipped with the facial-recognition technology, it can
also display the pedestrian's personal information which can automatically take pedestrians'
temperatures. This proposed design has a high in demands from the healthcare system and can
potentially help to prevent for corona virus spreading wider.

Keywords: COVID-19, Corona virus, IoT Technology, facial-recognition

Introduction

A corona virus is a kind of virus that can spread easily animals to animals [1] and individuals [2]
[3] the function of normal body is disturbed by the action of such virus which breaks into cells
within their host and exploits them to replicate itself. The name of Corona viruses was taken
from Latin term 'corona', that means crown, since they are encompassed by what look like royal

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crown of a spiked shell shape. The World Health Organization (WHO) officially announced that
a new virus had been identified which then is called by 2019-nCoV on January 2020 [4]. The
virus was recognized as part of the corona virus group, which involves SARS and the other
known colds [5]. The first reported case was from Wuhan, China and has infected 7,711 people
and 170 reported deaths in China before corona virus was declared as a global pandemic which
produces a sickness authoritatively defined as COVID-19 that has diffused to a minimum 141
nations and regions, causing death over 5,700 individuals around the world [6]. Someone who
infected by corona virus will show common symptom such as fever, dry cough, and tiredness or
some cases, infected person will feel pains &aches, runny nose sore throat, nasal congestion, or
diarrhea [7] [8] [9]However, some people infected with the virus do not show any symptoms and
do not feel uncomfortable. Around 80% of individuals infected by COVID-19 can get recovery
without acquiring particular treatment [6],but it is so dangerous for the doctors because An
earlier report shared by the center on April 23 had revealed that at least 253 healthcare workers
in the country had been infected by the coronavirus. That number has now jumped by 191, or 75
per cent, to 444. The latest report, which has data up until April 29, shows 216 doctors, 67 nurses
and 161 healthcare staff have tested positive across the country up until now. Of these, 204 are in
isolation at homes, 138 are admitted to hospitals shows in table 1.

Table 1: COVID-19 Casa in Healthcare Workers dated 29th April

The report adds that out of 444 infected with the virus, 138 were working in critical care while
306 were working in other wards of the hospitals. Contacts of the health professionals have been
traced and tested, according to the report and some 186 contacts have tested positive while test
results of another 289 are awaited shows in Table 2.

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Table 2: COVID-19 Casa in Healthcare Workers dated 30th April

We need to save doctors' lives. If doctors start dying, who will save the patients. Right now, no
effective vaccine for COVID 19 was produced or particular medication for treatment such virus
was developed. However, potential vaccines and some particular medicine treatments are still
under investigation and now being subjected to comprehensive test by leading medical research
centres. Further, extraordinary efforts are coordinated by WHO to develop and produce effective
vaccines and drugs to avoid and treat COVID-19. As the reported case of death and infected
people keep increasing [6], many nations have performed lockdown to minimize the spread
impact of coronavirus. They also try to identify the infected in hospitals by screening the
temperature using some devices. But the usage of the infrared thermometer gun itself is still
lacking because it might not cover the faculty of hospital and more time-consuming. That way
also can lead to the spreading virus widely because the medical workers has to do it one by one
through a lot of people queuing when one of them has probability to infect people around. To
prevent this flaw, an alternative technology is needed. The internet of things (IoT) has been
adopted in a smart city as infrastructure's key since the introducing the concept of a smart city.
The big research efforts that are done presently are a confirmation on prosperity monitoring by
remote sensing is based on IoT. The internet of things (IoT) is the interconnection between the
physical objects or things that are attached with sensors and software to gather and deliver
informations among them and primary servers with least human mediation [10]. IoT healthcare is
modern worldview that conveys the services and medical data associated indeed farther areas.
The IoT system in medical is now in an advance setup that contains so many varieties of mecha
[10]nism like smart sensors, medical equipment, big data, cloud computing, telemedicine,
clinical information system, and many more. IoT technique is categorized into; remote
monitoring of patients, remote tracking and monitoring of health, sensor based devices for hand
wash monitoring, and monitoring of interactive RFID activities [10] [11] [12] [13]. It delivers
best evaluation, better diagnosis, and maintains efficient treatment of patient. The main
applications of IoT in the field of medical health care incorporate [14] [10]: Therapeutic data
administration, Telemedicine and portable medical care and management of health. With the IoT

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technology that has widely implemented in the health care sector, this study aims to design of
system that has capability to detect the coronavirus automatically from the thermal image with
less human and doctor interactions using smart helmet with Mounted Thermal Imaging System.
The thermal camera technology is integrated to the smart helmet and combined with IoT
technology for monitoring of the screening process to get the real time data.

Purposed Work

This section describes the working flow of three subsystems due to the interrelationship between
each other to perform the entire application. In addition, the necessary system’s element,
excluding module of decision making, are image processing module that is in charge of data
processing of optical and thermal cameras. Furthermore, the task of the required data collection
is assigned to the smart helmet when needed. The interfacing of a modular system that is based
on IoT communication link is done. This system delivers a notification if detecting temperature
higher than normal temperature. The GPS module determine the position coordinates after
tagging it and a notification is sent to assigned smart mobile through a GSM. The doctor will get
the data of patient’s face and temperature to identify someone who is indicating as infected of
COVID-19 as shown in figure 1.

Figure 1: work flow of proposed method

The proposed smart helmet is integrated into three segments. The first segment of the system
involves the input source of the mechanism that consists of the thermal camera, optical camera
and mobile phone application. The processor development was the second segment of system
development. In this segment, the microcontroller processor was integrated using the. The
software enables compilation of the necessary commands and source code into the NODEMCU

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V2 processor. Meanwhile, the third segment of the system focused on the output source for the
mechanism.

Fig 2. Monitor the patient

The smart helmet was equipped with two different types of cameras, allowing the gathering of
detailed information of the face detection details and temperature measurements. Optical
camera and infrared thermal camera which provided information about the temperature at which
the different focuses of interest were found. A thermographic camera, which sometimes named
by thermal imager, thermal imaging, or infrared cameras, is a device using infrared radiation to
create image similarly to traditional camera that utilize visible light to produce image. This
module regards segmentation approach of an image according to the recorded temperature and
captured colour images by both thermal and optical cameras. Thermal camera is utilized for hot
body detection and recognizing by adopting the variability of high temperature compared with
other objects within the scanned zone. If thermal camera visualizes high temperature body, then
it creates high intensity levels of infrared spectra.

In this project, the Arduino IDE (Arduino integrated development environment) is adopted
which is written in Java language and represents a cross-platform App. It involves many features
code editor such as syntax highlighting, auto- indentation, and brace matching. The IDE
additionally uploaded an Arduino board by compiled and uploaded programs using essential one-
click mechanism.For face detection process, this prototype uses EmguCV cross platform. Net
wrapper to the Intel OpenCV image processing library and C# .Net. The normal APIs are
generated during programming by Open CV library. Ardunio UNO board is used with a
computer stick driven by Intel processor. The face detection is done by using Cascade

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Classification algorithm which is based on Hair feature. It is presented by Paul Viola and
Michael [14]. Further, Machine learning algorithm is used with a cascade function for training
both of positive and negative images. The open CV library already has the Cascade object
detection that recognizes the face of the captured image. Many common features are extracted
from the human Face to make a standardized size rectangle to enable image preprocessing
algorithm to grayscale image as well as histogram equalization [14].

Conclusion

Due to covid19 are number of people infected and increase the ratio of death not only a common
man there is also include doctors nurses and other staff of hospital who are tack care of covid
infected people. In this critical situation we can save our paramedical staff from corona infection
with the help of this model

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