COV’ATCH (Smart Virus Control)

Abstract

The world has seen a lot of viruses and global pandemics throughout its course for example swine flu, influenza, cholera etc. Similarly, COVID’19 is also one of the most challenging pandemics faced by the world recently. To bring our lives back to normal and fight the pandemic, countries all over the world came up with vaccines. But everybody soon realized that the virus kept mutating and vaccines are not a permanent solution. So it became necessary to follow a list of precautions/SOPs issued by WHO. Not just COVID, but any virus can be controlled in this way. Our project is an autonomous robot that will monitor these SOPs and ensure compliance. The tasks done by our project will be monitoring social distance, ensuring people are wearing masks and sanitizing the environment after fixed time intervals. It also has a dispenser to provide masks and hand sanitizer to people. The aim of our project is to reduce the spreading of the virus in crowded spaces like hospitals and provide ease to healthcare workers as the robot will autonomously perform human tasks. We will use artificial intelligence and digital image processing to carry out these tasks.