2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19): Toward a Novel Design for Disinfection Robot to Combat Coronavirus (Covid-19) Using IoT Based Technology

ABSTRACT

Coronavirus Disease 19 or well known as Covid-19 is infectious disease that attack human respirator system. This virus is contagious due to its fast transmission from small droplets that come to people that sneezing, coughing, or even talking. This virus can stay in air for long time and it also can survive on the inanimate surface things. During this time, some places like hospital, mall, and station are places where crowds gathered. People in those places have possibility to spread the virus not only through close contact but also due to touching the infected surfaces. That is why device that able to clean the infected surfaces needed. The Internet of Things based robots may give big impact in combating the coronavirus that stay on inanimate surfaces. The proposed system is the robot that able to disinfect the surfaces of things using UV-C lights. The implementation of UV disinfectant robot will indeed help health authorities in reducing the transmission. © 2021 IEEE.