Coviguard - Intelligent shirt using Arduino for protection against covid

ABSTRACT

In the current pandemic situation, we need to follow certain precautionary measures to safeguard us from the deadly virus. We have been able to contain the virus to a certain extent through social distancing, by sanitizing ourselves and sterilizing the daily-use items. Monitoring the vitals like body temperature, oxygen saturation, and pulse rate has proven to be effective in diagnosing the fatal disease. In this proposed method, we have come up with a solution to help the user to keep a check on the important parameters mentioned above by incorporating various sensors like MLX90614 non-contact infrared temperature sensor, SpO2 sensor, pulse rate sensor, and ultrasonic sensor in a shirt- CoviGuard. The vitals are displayed on an IOT application called ThingSpeak. A buzzer is used to indicate if the user doesn't maintain the specified distance of 0.5 meters. © 2023 IEEE.