Zero-Contact Novel Corona Virus (Sars-Cov-2) Patient Monitoring and Management System Using IoT

Abstract

Entire world is passing through the corona virus disease (COVID-19) outbreak badly. According to the WHO, corona virus affects respiratory system. This corona virus majorly spreads when someone comes in contact with an infected person and respiratory droplets that generates by coughing or sneezing play major role in spreading the infection. These respiratory droplets can spread infection when inhaled by someone or contaminate hands and surfaces in contact. During the treatment of such infectious disease, the safety of healthcare workers becomes the matter of primary concern as they are directly involved during the process of diagnosis as well as treatment and care of COVID‐19 patients; hence, they are always open to infection, and their chances of getting infected with SARS‐CoV‐2 virus become very high. A lot of challenges hospitals and staff are facing, and few of them need to be addressed technologically. In present work, in this paper, we have proposed a Bluetooth and IOT-based wireless healthcare monitoring system. The proposed system can be utilized to get real-time online physiological conditions of a patient. Doctors can monitor their COVID-19 patients remotely. A robotic trolley could be pressed into service (serve or fulfill the patient need) in hospital in order to remove direct connection and minimize the risk of spreading infection between healthcare workers who are directly involved in treating COVID-19 patients. This system continuously monitors the real-time temperature and pulse rate of the patient and send data remotely to the doctors. A medicine reminder system also reminds the patient about the medicine with date and time through voice system.