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Philippines is one of the highest electricity prices in the ASEAN where harnessing renewable energy using wasted human effort is necessary. The global pandemic COVID-19 is spreading and because of this, establishments have required sanitation. The study's main objective is to Develop a Rotational Electromagnetic Induction Flywheel using Foot Pedal as Actuation to Harvest Renewable Energy. T-test was used to validate the results using the battery percentage of a power bank as the parameter, where there is a significant difference between single and multiple actuations with an attached mechanical dispenser and without. The system was able to harness an average of 0.30992 Watt-hour and 6.11476 Watt-hour in 5 daily trials for single and multiple controlled set-ups without mechanical dispenser respectively. An average of 0.2441 Watt-hour and 5.0027 Watt-hour for single and multiple controlled set-ups with mechanical dispenser correspondingly. Lastly, an average of 3.2924 Watt-hour in 5 daily trials for uncontrolled set-up. © 2023 IEEE.
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Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have witnessed a rapid increase in their utilization in various applications and will continue to do so in the coming decades. These UAVs, also known as drones, are designed to either assist humans or perform tasks that involve people. Drones of today have grown to be faster and less expensive by integrating several technologies, supported by hybrid algorithms, and perform various tedious, challenging, filthy and hazardous tasks. The deployment of machine learning and other AI-based algorithms enhances drones' autonomous and vision capabilities. Today, part of an effort to curtail the spread of COVID-19, this research has designed, developed and built a mobile disinfectant dispenser based on autonomous quadrotor UAV. It is a 'flying dispenser', able to detect a person's hand gestures from afar, based on machine learning (ML), to fly and maneuver towards the person and finally spray disinfectant on his/her hand. In order to identify various hand motions for maneuvering, this research studies and improves the ML algorithms and carries out various experiments to improve the drones' response time and maneuvering performance, for the final objective of taking precautions to protect humans from Covid-19. © 2022 IEEE.
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The newly discovered infectious disease COVID-19 infected many people. The coronavirus causes respiratory problems and also gets affected in many parts of the human body. This virus is transmitted from one body to another body through the air or by touch. The only way to stop the transmission is to use a mask on the face and washing or sanitizing hands frequently. Sanitizers are liquid, gel, or foam which is designed to eliminate germs on skin or any other object. In daily lives also sanitization is necessary to prevent various germs which can make you ill. One of the main modes of contact with germs is our hands because in our daily lives we touch many infected surfaces and objects unknowingly hence to prevent any type of illness due to those germs, hand sanitization is necessary, especially for a person working in a closed and congested environment like offices, canteens, restaurants, schools, etc. This paper aims to design a low-cost Arduino-based automatic sanitizer dispenser-controlled door and it will be of great help in public places where people don't follow hand hygiene properly. This automatic sanitizer system will be placed at the entry point of the main gate and it will only allow entry from that gate if and only if the person goes through the sanitization process first. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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The challenge to guarantee healthy aging has become a major social concern. Due to the cognitive deficits related to age, hectic daily activities, and multiple medications prescriptions, the elders often tend to forget their pills intakes. This has a colossal impact on their health and life. Moreover, the recent pandemic of COVID-19 has accentuated the importance to provide independent and autonomous living for the elderly. This paper presents a pill management system based on loT intended for aged individuals. The proposed system is a smart pill dispenser associated with a mobile application. The main actors of the system are the patient, the doctor, the pharmacist, and the patient's caregiver and/or relative, each having restricted access to the system via specific credentials. The prescription is directly edited on the mobile application by the doctor and the scheduling and filling of the pillbox is done wirelessly by the pharmacist. The reminding of medications intakes in this system is done gradually to help the patient adhere to his/her prescription. First, it notifies the patient about his/her scheduled pill by a mobile notification then via the pill dispenser using LCD, LED, and buzzer. The implemented system also allows the doctor and caregiver to keep a tab of the patient's intakes. Furthermore, the pill dispenser is featured with a locking mechanism to ensure medication dosage control and prevent drugs abuse. Experiments show that the proposed system is appreciated by the elderly and encourages them to take their pills successfully and safely without causing any disturbance.
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This paper evaluates a robot that distributed hand-sanitizer over an eight month period (October 2020-June 2021) in public places on the Oregon State University campus. During COVID times, many robots have been deployed in public places as social distancing enforcers, food delivery robots, UV-sanitation robots and more, but few studies have assessed the social situations of these robots. Using the context of robot distributing hand sanitizer, this work explores the benefits that social robots may provide to encouraging healthy human activities, as well as ways in which street-performance inspired approaches and a bit of humor might improve the quality and experience of functional human-robot interactions. After gaining human-in-the-loop deployment experience with a customized interface to enable both planned and improvized responses to human bystanders, we run two sub-studies. In the first, we compare the performance of the robot (moving or still) relative to a traditional hand sanitizer dispenser stick (N=2048, 3 week data collection period). In the second, we evaluate how varied utterance strategies further impact the interaction results (N=185, 2 week data collection period). The robot dramatically outperforms the stick dispenser across all tracked behavioral variables, cuing high levels of positive social engagement. This work finds the utterance design is more complex socially, and offer insights to future robot designers about how to integrate helpful and playful speech into service robot interactions. Finally, across both sub-studies, the work shows that people in groups are more likely to engage with the robot and each other, as well as sanitize their hands. © 2022 IEEE.
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The newly discovered infectious disease COVID-19 infected many people. The coronavirus causes respiratory problems and also gets affected in many parts of the human body. This virus is transmitted from one body to another body through the air or by touch. The only way to stop the transmission is to use a mask on the face and washing or sanitizing hands frequently. Sanitizers are liquid, gel, or foam which is designed to eliminate germs on skin or any other object. In daily lives also sanitization is necessary to prevent various germs which can make you ill. One of the main modes of contact with germs is our hands because in our daily lives we touch many infected surfaces and objects unknowingly hence to prevent any type of illness due to those germs, hand sanitization is necessary, especially for a person working in a closed and congested environment like offices, canteens, restaurants, schools, etc. This paper aims to design a low-cost Arduino-based automatic sanitizer dispenser-controlled door and it will be of great help in public places where people don't follow hand hygiene properly. This automatic sanitizer system will be placed at the entry point of the main gate and it will only allow entry from that gate if and only if the person goes through the sanitization process first. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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Coronavirus flare-up chances human existence and it challenges the general wellbeing. Hand cleanliness, an extremely basic activity, is very much acknowledged to be one of the essential methods of decreasing medical care-related disease and of improving patient security. These days wearing masks, utilizing hand sanitizers, checking temperatures are being done in all places, and so forth yet at the same time in many spots individuals utilize conventional sanitizer gadgets which build the spread of microorganisms. Normally an individual is in charge of observing the body temperature and sanitizer level by taking a chance with his life. This survey Internet of Things (IoT) based hand sanitizer dispenser with temperature and level monitoring distinguishes the presence of the people and gives out alerts in form of the human voice to sanitize their hands if the dispenser goes unrecognized. Furthermore, we have a contactless sanitizer dispenser to stay away from contact among humans and dispensers which will keep us away from the further spread of infection and microorganisms. © 2022 IEEE.
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Since the COVID-19 pandemic, automated liquid dispensers have been increasingly developed to assist transmission prevention. However, data availability of automatic liquid dispenser mechanism's technical characteristics is not yet widely available. This causes frequent over or under design in its development. Therefore, we specifically measure push and pull forces engineering characteristics generated by the automatic liquid dispenser mechanism. A wire mechanism-based automatic liquid dispenser apparatus was used to experiment. A load-cell sensor was used to detect the force that occurs from a servo motor controlled by a microcontroller. The force data (push and pull) will be sent directly to the database server cloud with a recording frequency of every second. Three types of fluid treatment levels are used i.e. water, liquid soap, and hand sanitizer gel. Three types of fluid volume treatment levels used were 50 ml, 150 ml, and 250 ml. Each treatment level combination is carried out at the servo motors rotation steps 180°, 150°, 120°, 90°, 60°, and 30°. The results show that no significant differences were found in maximal forces required to release the water, liquid soap, and hand-sanitizer gel. It is also known that the volume of the fluid has a very significant effect on the amount of push and pull forces generated.
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) which has spread worldwide, creating an unprecedented pandemic situation. Due to rapid spreading, the pandemic forced several nations to impose lockdown for isolating the population and new policies of quarantine were adopted. After the government eased the restrictions, the most prominent challenges faced by daily commuters (employees or students) include maintaining a safe distance from others, regular sanitization, and washing hands, wearing masks and face shields, contact tracing, etc. It is quite difficult to practice social distancing and always use hand sanitizer when using public transport or at the workplace and people do not have a track of their temperature, heart rate, and oxygen saturation level. Though it is ideal to avoid traveling, when necessary some factors need to be considered such as personal hygiene, contactless interaction, disinfection, and monitoring important health parameters. Given this, we aim to develop an IoT-enabled compact wearable system including all essential features like an electronic face mask, an automatic sanitizer dispenser, and a Temperature-SpO2 monitoring wearable to avoid any physical touch and discomfort and alert the nearby doctors about irregularity in any parameter through the GSM module. The results of the software simulation of the system and the web-scraping using Python software to extract coordinates of containment zones are discussed in the paper. © 2021 IEEE.
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In today's world, the number of diseases like covid 19, pneumonia is increasing due to ignorance, lethargy, and some medication non-adherence of the individuals. So, there is a need to monitor the vitals of an individual. Especially elder patients are greatly affected because of their age-related complications like Diabetes, Hypertension, or Hypotension. The most common vitals that have to be noticed are heart rate, body temperature and respiratory rate. But the existing techniques proposed either a health monitoring system or pill dispenser. The de-merits of these techniques are the patients have to afford two different systems to take care of their health. So, therefore in this paper, we've discussed a solution to this by proposing an idea of a wearable Health monitoring system along with a Smart pill dispenser box. Therefore, the goal of this survey is to evaluate the different methods of monitoring systems using the technology used and to compare its merits and demerits to help the upcoming researchers to make a system as per the need to overcome the coercions in the existing systems. © 2021 IEEE.
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We all aware of COVID-19 impact around the world which made us to be more cautious in our social life. In this situation, we need to adopt few precautionary measures such as washing hands regularly, sanitization and social distancing. In this regard, we need to upgrade our gadget which comes under physical contacts regularly with people as it can be high risk of transmission of virus. Here doorbell is one such an example which comes under gadget with multiple person contacts, so there should be an upgradation to avoid physical contact while using doorbell. This made us to develop a product called as touchless doorbell with sanitizer dispenser, which avoids physical contacts as well as provides sanitizing the hand. It consists of two IR transceivers, and microcontroller along with surrounding circuitry helps to control sanitizer and doorbell. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.