LakshmanRekha household quarantine management application for COVID-19 patients: Since the Coronavirus pandemic broke final year, authorities and persons about the globe have struggled to include and monitor Covid-19 positive patients from breaching household and institutional quarantine guidelines. To cease Coronavirus from spreading it is essential to guarantee that an infected patient remains quarantined, but as we have usually observed this is challenging to enforce. To mitigate this, researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi have created what is a initially-of-its-sort mobile application that can constantly monitor and accurately detect the identity of a quarantined particular person so that no patient can breach the assigned geo-fence.
The app named LakshmanRekha – is an Artificial Intelligence and biometric-driven Home Quarantine Management Application (HQMA) for COVID-19 patients which utilizes a mixture of biometric verification, geo-fencing and artificial intelligence to constantly monitor and accurately detect the identity of a household quarantined persons. In addition to the quarantine management, this application can also serve as an unbreachable mobile phone platform for typical (non-COVID) mobile customers, circumstances like below curfew, or any national emergency, for identifying the violators or lawbreakers.
The outcomes of the study work that was funded by the Department of Science and Technology has been authored by the lead scientist on this study Dr. Aditya Nigam, Assistant Professor, School of Computing & Electrical Engineering – IIT Mandi, and co-investigator on the study Dr. Arnav Bhavsar along with study scholars Daksh Thapar and Piyush Goyal of IIT Mandi, with Dr. Gaurav Jaiswal from IIT Delhi and Dr. Kamlesh Tiwari and Rohit Bhardwaj of BITS Pilani.
Speaking about the app, Dr Nigam stated, “We have developed a pilot version of LakshmanRekha mobile application and tested it over small datasets. The obtained results are very good and now we are working to add more functionality, scalability and usability to make it ready for deployment.”
The application matches the quarantine place of the person with the place from exactly where they upload the biometric information. Along with this, working with AI, the application can continually compute an authentication score that can measure how specific it is, that the quarantined user is also the one working with the mobile. It can also straight notify the authorities if it detects that the user identity has been changed.