IoT-Enabled smart mask to detect COVID19 outbreak

Internet of Things (IoT) has dominated various sectors over human effort with its liberal dimensions of innovations. Shielding various utilizations in terms of extensity, IoT integrated with the cloud has obtained a far-reaching spectrum.

Nevertheless, the SARS-CoV-2 has become an imperil, at the present moment causing remarkable demands on health technologies across the globe and gravely snarling the entire world populace. Whilst, the front-runners are striving enormously to uncover this virus, in the event of medications and evolving vaccines, it is also imperative to explore the existing systems dealing with medical emergence, mitigating its spread, and supremely the planning for thwarting this virus. The extant passive face masks provide effective and feasible protection by screening all the air particles entering the nasal passage.

This paper aims to enucleate a new "smart mask" paradigm for telehealth. As the vital health parameters like temperature, respiratory rate(RR), and heart rate(HR) are being easily affected by this deadly virus, this paper envisions a wearable mask equipped with an active sensor (LM35 temperature sensor) that would continuously monitor these health parameters of the person wearing the mask and provide real-time analysis of the data through the cloud.

This proposed methodology also incorporates a vigilant system that would alert the person, if the necessary physical distance is not maintained. Besides, this application provides a person with a detailed record of his health, sending doctors and hospitals for teleconsultation.

Experimental results from a functional prototype have proved it a constructive low-cost system.