COVID-SAFE: IoT Based Health Monitoring System using RFID in Pandemic Life

Abstract

Self-Isolation and maintenance of social distance becomes mandatory to break the COVID infection chain during early stages of COVID-19 pandemic where there was no WHO approved vaccine or cure. This paper presents a latent application of Radio Frequency Identification and Internet of Things in healthcare sectors. To achieve this, a system is proposed for smart tracking of patient health information like temperature, pulse rate, height and weight. Multi-specialty hospitals can be used this to organize and automate database. This system will generate unique identification number (UIN) for every patient to identify the patient in the hospital management software (HMS). Further, this UIN can be linked to medical records of patient essential signs for their future consultation. Using RFID, patient information can be retrieved from anywhere across globe. Through IoT, contact less sensors are used to measure or check the patient's body parameters such as temperature, height, weight and SpO2. Using RFID tags patients and doctors can regularly check up on health condition of a person which is collected through contactless sensors every time.