ABSTRACT
The smart IoT scanner for covid-19 contact tracing project was proposed and developed to help increasing the efficiency of the contact tracing process during the covid-19 virus pandemic. As of 15th January 2021, Malaysia has recoded 151066 cases and 586 deaths [1]. The aim of this project is to develop a smart IoT scanner for covid-19 contact tracing by scanning telecommunication signal to break the chain of covid-19 virus transmission. This project digitalized the conventional contact tracing by scanning BLE beacons transmitted by any proximity devices. A custom hardware is developed in this project with the ability to advertise an anonymous ID and scanning other devices for the contact tracing purpose. BLE has been choose as the medium of communication between devices as it consumes low power. All the recorded data can be analysed by the software for the data matching and contact tracing purpose. This method reduces the time to interview covid-19 patient and find the contact by simplifying into a single click method. As the results, this project achieved 72.62% of detection rate between the devices and the average response time between each scan was recorded for 4 seconds. The distance accuracy test between the device shows that the accuracy up to 98.08% can be achieved from this system. © School of Engineering, Taylor's University.