Smart Door System for Maintaining Social Distancing and Controlling Spread of Infectious Disease

ABSTRACT

COVID-19, also known as coronavirus, has spread throughout the world and changed all facets of lives drastically. Though the vaccines are being distributed, the situation is still miserable in many countries. To slow down the spread of this virus, social distancing is required to be maintained. This paper proposes a smart door system that helps in fast temperature scanning of people and ensures social distancing at public places. The proposed system also automatically opens or closes the doors at public places and switches the appliances on the basis of the number of people present. The system design is based on Internet of things (IoT) and is embedded using Arduino Uno. This is an efficient and low-cost model to control the spread of infectious disease. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.