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DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM of NOVEL

COVID-19 USING INTERNET OF THINGS AND
SEND ALERT

Rana mudassar rasool*1, Tanvir Fatima Naik Bukht2, Rizwan Ahmad3,

Mubasher Malik4
1,2,4,
Department of computer science Institute of Southern Punjab Multan, Pakistan
3
Department of computer science Riphah international university Lahore, Pakistan
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
[email protected]

Abstract
Coronavirus is a new virus infection in humans. This virus was firstly discovered in
Wuhan the city. of china in December. This virus can easily spread from human to human so
the global emergency has been declared. The method proposed here is IOT based sensors to
sense the pitch of a voice and to check whether a patient is suffering from abnormal
fluctuations; along with that the embedded Thermal Imaging sensor will sense the
temperature of a person and send the alert to family persons and government also. This
method is centered on deep learning techniques that will definitely help the government to
screen for coronavirus infection in a large population. Moreover, it will definitely help to
control this virus from spreading due to the automatic sensor detection and diagnosis system.

Keywords: Covid-19 internet of things (IoT), nodemcu, china, thermal screenin

1. INTRODUCTION
Corona virus spreads from human to human [1] and also from animals [2]. It was first
discovered in China and suspected initially to normal seasonal flu, cough, or temperature. It
gets the world's attention when 7711 people got infected in China and 170 people are
reported as dead in China [3]. In January 2020, the World Health Organization has officially
announced a virus as 2019- nCoV [4]. It was just a part of the Corona virus group that
includes different viruses like SARS and the other is known as colds [5]. When it has
officially got the world's attention after infecting Wuhan and China, the World Health
Organization has officially announced this pandemic as COVID-19. This virus causes a
serious illness that results in sickness in the human body. This pandemic has damaged or
disrupted almost the whole world, by diffusing more than 203 Nations and more than
2049987 deaths all around the world [6]. Different kinds of symptoms have been diagnosed

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in patients of the Corona virus. That includes fever, exhaustion, dry cough, body pain,
tiredness [7]. And in many cases
patents suffer from throat pain that results in breathing issues, running nose, and diarrhea [8].
However, adults with a strong immune system, do not suffer any kind of symptoms and do
not feel uncomfortable or easy. But still, it can become a cause of spreading the virus to
other people with a weak immune system, which can result in the loss of their lives. The
people with a weak immune system, the one suffering from any kind of disease, children and
old people can easily be infected with this virus. There is no proper treatment for this
pandemic virus. However, the spread is deaccelerated by social distancing methods adopted
by different countries. The source of spread also being curtailed by putting the embargo on
men and material movements across the borders within states and among country borders.
Meanwhile, scientists and researchers are doing their best to find a proper vaccine that can
cure this virus but couldn't find any effective vaccine for that. the pandemic viral spread is
increasing day by day, the need of the hour is to control the spreading of virus by detecting
the patients with symptoms and the isolation of patients with few or no symptoms, so that, its
spreading can be controlled. So thermal screening is an inefficient way to screen so many
people and to get real-time data. A system is needed that can detect as soon as possible and as
many patients as possible to overcome this speedy viral spread. To reduce it's spreading, the
internet of things (IoT) can playa vital role in the detection of this virus accurately and fast.
The real-time detection of corona using healment with help of thearmal imaging system . this
system can detect body temperature and send it on a cell phone [9] . the main purpose is
diagnosed with the coronavirus at an early stage [10]
The Internet of things helps to automate things and give this world a totally new view with
the help of sensors and devices. It is playing its vital role in every field whether it is medical
or non-medical [11]. In the medical field, the IoT has its advanced system that includes many
techniques or mechanisms including cloud computing, big data or data mining, medical
equipment, smart sensors, telemedicine, etc. remote systems are introduced in medicine to
have the least interaction and fully automatic system. An example of the IoT based system in
the medical field includes remote tracking and health monitoring systems, remote monitoring
of patients, Sensor-based devices for handwashing monitoring, interactive RFID monitoring
activities [12]. For sake of administration of therapeutic data, to detect coronavirus, IoT based
system is being used with the help of a different sensor that can sense the pitch of voice and
its fluctuation when a patient speaks. Any other sensor is used to check the temperature of a
person's body. When the patient interacts with the proposed system that will help the least
interaction with the patient directly using nodemcu8266 and send an alert with Sim900A. It
will help in controlling the spread of this coronavirus as well as timely and real-time
detection of the Corona virus.

2. Purposed Methodology
In this proposed method, we presented a safety concept in which we can save our family
members and many other people from Covid-19. We found it difficult to identify a person
who is a victim of Covid-19 because of having similar symptoms like many other diseases.
Therefore, the purpose of the project is to build a detection system that will be able to detect

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any person who knocks or rings the bell at our home gate. This goal can be fulfilled with the
use of NodeMCU, Audio Sensor, and Thermal Temperature Camera. This hardware will be
used to dingoes the Cough and measure the body temperature of the person who rings the bell
at the house gate. This device can be placed at the start of the street or at the gate of the
house. This system can even be useful to report, and share the location of that specific
suspected person with Government officials for further diagnoses and treatment inquires.

Figure 1. Block diagram for Purposed Method

2.1. Algorithm for purposed Method
1. Get input audio and Thermal imaging sensor send to Nodemcu
2. Nodemcu send audio value to send to cloud analysis
3. If desired audio < inputted sound AND desired temperature < inputted temperature
Then
4. Send the alert to house person and also send to the government
5. End

2.3. Design and development

2.3.1. NodeMCU
NodeMCU is an electronic component and development tool mostly used to develop IoT
products or systems. NodeMCU comprises firmware or electronic components that run on
ESP8266 Wifi SOC from Espressif System and hardware that totally rely upon ESP-12
module. The language used by the firmware is Lua scripting language. This was developed
for ESP8266 on the Express f Non-OS SDK which depended on the eLua system.

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Figure 2. Nodmcu8266
2.3.2. Sound Sensor
A sound sensor specifically used to identify different kinds of sound waves and change them
to different electrical signals with the help of their intensity.

Figure 3. audio sensor

Figure 4. sound signals

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2.3.3. Thermal Sensor

The operation temperature boundary of MLX90640 thermal temperature sensor is -40°C to
85°C, While in case of measuring the temperature of an object it can measure between the
range of -40°C to 300°C.

Figure 4. MLX90640
2.3.4. SIM900A
The SIM900A is a dual-bad GSM/GPRS that allows it to work with two different frequency
bands EGSM 900MHZ and DCS1800MHZ. The SIM900A is a piece of easily accessible or
available equipment mainly used in developing IoT, embedded applications, or in mobile
phones and PDAs.

Figure 5.Sim900A

3. Conclusion
In this study, a method was proposed to detect and diagnose a Corona viral infection, at its
early stage, using IoT base sensor system called nodemcu8266. This system focuses on two
main symptoms, first is the temperature of the body and the other is cough or throat infection.
It is very important to detect this virus in the early stages to stop it from spreading. The
proposed system offers speedy screening of the infected population and transmits real-time

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data to authorities for medical care measure including isolation and treatment so that the way
of wildfire spreading of this infection can be curtailed. This system used to detect the pitch
of the voice and any abnormal fluctuations in voice and to detect the body temperature with
the help of a device. This technique does not involve skilled manpower like medical doctors;
it can be done with protected volunteers. It has been proved that potentially automatic
systems had the potential to fulfill the demands of the medical doctors to assess the suspected
population at the earliest.

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