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Due to the spread of COVID-19, people are starting to be more aware and careful when touching any devices in public. To reduce physical contact with public devices, we have developed a method that enables users to interact with many kinds of public devices using the browser on their smartphones. This method is called Chameleon because it resembles the ability of the animal chameleon to change its color according to its surrounding environment. We have developed the prototype system to confirm the mechanism of Chameleon. Then, we have applied the Chameleon method to two practical systems in the campus of Nagasaki University that is expected to be used by multiple users. These two systems are a Certificate Issuance System for students and a Digital Signage System, that provides directions to campus visitors. Through these experiences, we confirmed the availability of the Chameleon method as the new type of the browser included not only Web server browsing functions but also public device operation functions.
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Introduction and Objective: To find out the presence of post covid sequelae of lab confirmed cases of COVID-19 among NFC employees. Material(s) and Method(s): The study was conducted among 127 lab confirmed cases of COVID-19, in NFC employees and beneficiaries, using questionnaire to check the presence of post covid sequelae and psychiatric evaluation done using DASS21 scale. Result(s): Post COVID 19 sequelae have predominantly been noticed in the age group of 41-60, and followed by in the age group of 21-40. Among these male population reported more number of symptoms, when compared to those of female. The study population evaluated for post covid-19 syndrome at NFC-Hyderabad reported persistence of symptoms in 75% out of 127 patients on whom the study was conducted. A 53.1% Symptoms reported come under chronic fatigue syndrome, 22% come under sinus / nasal problems, rest under gastrointestinal and respiratory symptoms. We also conducted DASS21 analysis for psychiatry evaluation post COVID-19, and found more than 95% for the population were normal as per DASS21 scale. Conclusion(s): We have noticed that a considerable amount of population has experienced this post covid-19 sequelae, so it would be better to establish a protocol to follow up post covid at 4 -6 weeks for Post-acute Covid-19 symptoms and after 12 weeks for Chronic Covid-19, and manage them appropriately.
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COVID-19 has spread throughout the global and has restrained humans in all aspects of life including society, economy, education, etc. The first Corona virus appeared in China on 2019 and had mutated into several variants such as B.1.1.7 (Alpha), B.1.351 (Beta), E484Q (Delta), and BA.2 (Omicron). In order to block the virus to mutate and spread in the communities, we proposed a design of E-Passport by adopting RFID Implants with integrated Microservices technology. Our concepts is we design an android application (E-passport) that will be used by every institution on public places to stop the positive patients getting inside the public space to spread the virus. The checker in every public places need to scan the RFID implants on every humans hand by using NFC technology embedded on android phone with installed E-Passport to determine whether can enter or forbidden to enter. The RFID Implant stored a unique code that can be read as the reference of the person's data information stored in cloud database based on Microservices infrastructure. Our proposed design and architecture are dedicated to stop the COVID-19 virus to spread among public communities. © 2022 IEEE.
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Due to the spread of COVID-19, people are starting to be more aware and careful when touching any devices in public. To reduce physical contact with public devices, we have developed a method that enables users to interact with many kinds of public devices using the browser on their smartphones. This method is called Chameleon because it resembles the ability of the animal chameleon to change its color according to its surrounding environment. We have developed the prototype system to confirm the mechanism of Chameleon. Then, we have applied the Chameleon method to two practical systems in the campus of Nagasaki University that is expected to be used by multiple users. These two systems are a Certificate Issuance System for students and a Digital Signage System, that provides directions to campus visitors. Through these experiences, we confirmed the availability of the Chameleon method as the new type of the browser included not only Web server browsing functions but also public device operation functions. © 2022 IEEE.
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Patient misdiagnosis is quite a common occurrence in hospitals around the world. It is a mistake that can happen to anyone at any time, and especially during a pandemic crisis when hospital facilities are overwhelmed with increasing number of patients. This problem could stem from improper patient identification whereby patient files are mislabelled or placed in an incorrect patient dossier. It is the responsibility of a hospital and its employees to guarantee that such mistakes do not occur. With respect to this, near-field communication (NFC) technology, which is a short ranged wireless communication technology, has been identified to have great potential to help identify patients in hospitals.This paper demonstrates a solution by designing and developing a patient healthcare management information system that sees the seamless integration of the NFC technology along with and both web and mobile technologies,to provide a holistic solution to tackle the problem of patient misidentification in a hospital environment especially during pandemics such as COVID-19.The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was used as evaluation method in order to quantify the proposed systems's usability and acceptance using 5 constructs. Results showed acceptance of the system with a mean score of 4, indicating that the NFC tag-based mHealth Patient Healthcare Tracking System was found to be useful and easy to use. © 2022 IEEE.
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Medicines play a vital role in human lives and that’s why the market size of medicines is quite large. Amid the pandemic of COVID-19 in the 21st century, the governments of many countries as well as healthcare industries, hospitals, doctors, and patients are facing a crucial threat of tampering and counterfeiting of vaccines and drugs. This is not an issue that can be ignored easily, as it troubles all of society in a significant way. New technology such as near field communication (NFC), combined with the latest technologies such as Hyperledger, blockchain, and the Internet of Things have given efficient results. The methodology used in this research manuscript (the authors named it “AKSHAT”) is that an NFC chip will be installed in the caps of medicines. When a consumer scans the label on a product with a phone or any NFC-enabled device, the device authenticates the product and informs as to whether it is a genuine product. When a consumer finds that the NFC seal is broken or if it looks intact but NFC data cannot be read, then apparently the product has been tampered with. In NFC, all data and information can be stored and cannot be changed again. The research results presented here establish that NFC is time-efficient, cost-effective, secure, and accurate. With the use of NFC tags, registered transactions on a private network and the tracing of the vaccine are very easy. The authors’ team has demonstrated this as a product that can currently store every transaction as immutable and transparent. The proposed anticounterfeiting solution “AKSHAT” uses NTAG-213 based tags, which are cost-effective as well as have a mutual understanding with all NFC-enabled smartphones. This provides the option for all product manufacturers and brand owners to integrate NFC technology at a fraction of the money. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Food, is very essential in our Life. because without food humans can't survive. During the time of COVID-19 pandemic, it is extremely crucial to take precautions about the food we consume. During this pandemic, people around the world have become more and more cautious about food security. Keeping this in mind food safety and quality is one of the vital matters we observe throughout our lives. Internet of Things (IOT) is a domain that we can use anywhere to improve the quality by using different sensors used for tracking and tracing things. IOT with food supply chain (FSC) would elevate food standards. This paper explores more about IOT devices working to secure packet food and frozen food. This paper also discusses future scope about the same model. By this research, technology and information might be valuable for all the consumers to increase awareness in addition to knowledge. © 2022 IEEE.
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To control pricing in passenger transportation, monitor the functioning of urban transport networks, reduce direct contacts during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is advisable to implement a system of NFC validation of fares. NFC (Near-Field Communication) technology provides primary information on public transport and travel fares. The article aims to improve the method of application of the technology of automated NFC-validation of fares in urban passenger transport to account for and control provided transport services. The tasks include research of mechanisms of the automated identification and counting of quantity of the transported passengers to account incomes of the motor transport enterprises;selection of calculation units for automated determination of the cost of provided transport services;development of control methods of drivers work, the operation of vehicles, transportation of privileged categories of citizens, pricing, etc. Theoretical and methodological aspects of NFC-validation technologies for public transport fares for accounting purposes have been studied based on general research methods - institutional and innovative;economic and mathematical methods of analysis and polynomial trend using Excel spreadsheets were used to predict the pace of implementation of NFC-devices;methods of bibliographic and comparative analysis using the information resource "ResearchGate" - to determine promising areas for new technologies in the provision of transport and passenger services. It is proved that the most effective unit of cost calculation of transport services is "passenger-kilometer", which corresponds to the peculiarities of the functioning of urban passenger transport, as it takes into account the number of passengers and distance of travel. The procedure for distribution of income from the sale of electronic tickets and budget subsidies between carriers based on information on the total number (including privileged categories) of transported passengers has been developed. The method of automated cost accounting by the "passenger-kilometer" meter for fuels and lubricants, staff salaries, depreciation of vehicles, and its current repairs, which define the cost of transport services, is improved. Implementing NFC fare validation technology will facilitate automated accounting of costs, revenues, and cash receipts from transport services, the introduction of effective control over the work of drivers, vehicles, concessional transportation, pricing, timeliness, and reliability taxes on urban transport.
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Due to the spread of COVID-19, people are starting to be more aware and careful when touching any devices in the public. In this paper, we proposed a method that could help reduce physical contacts with public devices using smartphone. This method is called Chameleon and we have developed the Chameleon so that it functions as an application that can control any kinds of public devices with minimal modifications.To confirm the effectiveness of the Chameleon, we have applied the method to two different systems in the campus of Nagasaki University that is expected to be used by multiple users. The two systems are a Digital Signage System, a system that provides directions to campus visitors, and a PIN type Smart Lock, a system that acts as a door lock. © 2021 IEEE.
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Despite the numerous advantages of microchip implants, their adoption remains low in the public sector. We conducted a cross-sectional survey to identify concerns and expectations about microchip implants among potential users. A total of 179 United States adults aged 18–83 years responded to two qualitative questions that were then analyzed using the thematic analysis technique. The identified codes were first categorized and then clustered to generate themes for both concerns and expectations. The prevalence of each theme was calculated across various demographic factors. Concerns were related to data protection, health risks, knowledge, negative affect, ease of use, metaphysical dilemmas, monetary issues, and negative social impact. Expectations included medical and non-medical uses, dismissal of microchips, technical advances, human enhancement, regulations, and affordability. The prevalence of concerns and benefits differed by immigration status and medical conditions. Informed by our findings, we present a modification to the Technology Acceptance Model for predicting public’s behavioral intention to use subcutaneous microchips. We discuss the five newly proposed determinants and seven predictor variables of this model by surveying the literature.
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Multiple unfortunate accidents in hotels ranging from theft to crimes due to unsupervised access. This paper aims to implement a smart hotel access system based on high-security attributes using the NFC Host-Card Emulation application for authentication in hotels to replace the traditional access ways. Analysis of the technologies and market were made to enlarge the knowledge and benefits of the proposed application. A mixed-mode evaluation was introduced based on surveys and interviews in two different geographical areas. The proposed system is an anti-contagious and contactless technology of smartphone applications for a convenient safe visit. The highest positive responses regarding cost-effectiveness were from Le Quadri hotel oppositely Four Seasons Hotel had larger positive responses in regards the contactless technology. Moreover, both locations had the same average of 95% positive comments given the competency and trust the application provided for eliminating contagiousness of covid-19. © 2021 IEEE.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly affected humanity’s habits, forcing governments to obtain special measures to ensure world health. The imposition of the social distance measure has raised several questions about the future of tourism. Thus, smart cities (SC) are at the focal point, while their technological capabilities being re-examined for their effectiveness during the pandemic crisis. So far, several solutions have been proposed by the tech giants, states, and the European Union (EU), using Information Communication Technology (ICT) and solutions supported by Bluetooth, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Near Field Communication (NFC), Internet of Things (IoT), as well as Artificial Intelligence (AI). This conceptual paper examines the use of an access point for the tourism of the COVID-19 era, implicated for visitors, marketers, and city authorities-administration, using the NFC technology, or solely a digital ticket. The visitor-user will be informed by an app concerning the social distancing, while at the same time, the user will have the possibility of Transmedia (TM) personalized experience. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many aspects of behavior, often leading to more cautious lifestyles. Financial transactions have not been an exception;as people have reduced cash transactions due to fears of virus transmission. Naturally, this was accompanied by an acceleration of growth of online payment services. Online transactions, Mobile Money, and Near-Field Communication (NFC) contactless payments have all experienced noticeable growth during the pandemic. Consequently, related cyber-risks have simultaneously increased. This paper reviews the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on NFC contactless payments internationally and in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Then the paper briefly explains the technological components of NFC payments, comparing NFC card payments and NFC mobile payments. It then reviews three recently identified NFC payments security threats and their respective protection methods. Finally, the paper analyzes the common factors between these threats and provides recommendations related to physical security and user awareness. © 2021 IEEE.
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The contagion of Sars-CoV-2 or Covid-19 inside the city of Huancayo is growing, with the transport sector being one of the most affected, so it was planned to reduce the rate of contagion among users of these services. This required the use of RFID-NFC technology in such a way as to prevent direct and indirect contact between passengers and drivers. Technology that is not dependent on the internet, because it was taken into account that, in that city, the technology is not very expanded so, there are places where the internet signal does not arrive. For this reason, the modules created from RFID technology are a good option to be able to slow the advance of the covid-19. © 2021 Association for Computing Machinery.
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During a pandemic, it is imperative that all staff members have up-to-date information on changing work practices in the healthcare environment. This article presents a way to implement work environment orientation amongst different groups in care facilities by utilizing mobile robots, radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies, and data synthesis. We offer a scenario based on a co-design approach, in which a mobile robot works as an orientation guide for new employees, RFID tags are applied on objects around the premises and people's clothing. The mobile robot takes advantage of the information provided by its known location and each RFID tag read by the RFID reader integrated with the robot. We introduce the scenario here, along with the details of its practical test implementation. Further, the challenges met in the test implementation are discussed as well as the future potential of its application. In conclusion, our study indicates that repetitive training and orientation-related duties can be successfully transferred to a mobile robot. Through RFID, the mobile robot can deliver the relevant information to the right people and thus contribute to patient and personnel safety and the resource efficiency of the orientation process.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has alarmed the world nations to impose strict curfews and emergencies to prevent the social transmission of the disease. In order to achieve this, effective Tracing and Tracking of the suspected COVID-19 cases need to be achieved. In view of the enormous number of cases being recorded each day, this process couldn't be performed effectively with simple manual tracing. Hence, we have proposed an Internet of Things (IoT) based automated Tracing and Tracking method for identification of the possible contacts with deployment of cost-effective RFID Tags and the mobile of the individuals which act as a reader. Thereby, tracing of persons who have crossed the subject would be possible even without the knowledge of the suspected cases. This would enable cent percent quarantine of possible primary and secondary contacts and monitoring of the same by the administrative agencies. This would augment the nations' capability of managing the pandemic.