Diagnosing Novel Covid-19 Using Smart Portable Detection Device

Abstract

In early December 2019, an outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) occurred, caused by a novel acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) occurred in Wuhan City, Hubei Province China, the outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International concern by the World Health Organization (W.H.O) on 30 January, 2020. After the outbreak, scanning using thermal infrared thermometers has been used in public places to test the temperature of the body to identify infectious persons in the crowd. This method of prevention is still not enough because it has some weaknesses; it spends a lot of time checking the temperature of each person, it not more intelligent and perhaps the most important thing is that the direct contact of the infected person might result to the dispersal of the disease to the personnel of the screening process and to other people at large. This study proposes the design of a system using a smart device, a programmable micro - controller designed to detect Corona Virus, with less human interactions with the following sensors; optical camera sensor, thermal imaging processing, Bluetooth module, Microphone module and neural processing engine for monitoring the screening process. The device informs authorities the need to acquire data in real time for immediate notification to the threat. The proposed system can be used as a device for healthcare, banking, markets, stores, schools, worship centers, road checkpoints and many more public places. The smart portable device can also be useful for potential travel restrictions, data obtained from the smart portable device can be used to determine the timing of covid-19 vaccine campaigns, collected data from this device can be used for the allocation of medical supplies as it generates real - time data. Finally, this device will help prevent the continuous spread of corona virus, which is increasing every day.