Automated Door System Using Arduino For Crowd Management

Abstract

According to the COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update released by WHO on 4th May 2021, India accounted for 46% of the new global Covid-19 cases, with over 29.4 million Indians contracted with the deadly virus in totality. Additionally, India accounted for 26% of global death in that week, with over 0.37 million citizens having succumbed to Covid-19 since the pandemic has begun. Furthermore, a data suggested that around 20% of people who contract coronavirus show no symptoms and being around them could be a great risk. Ignorance towards the government guidelines about social gathering has resulted in a huge spike of cases. Thus, taking all of this into consideration the objective of the project “Automated Door System Using Arduino for Crowd Management” is to reduce or to an extent totally eliminate the manual work that goes into opening and closing doors using a PIR sensor to detect people and an Arduino Uno as the microcontroller. Furthermore, we intend to only allow a certain number of restricted people in the room, in accordance with the government's social distancing guidelines, in order to help stop or reduce the spread of the deadly virus.