A Cost-Effective Tracking and Health Monitoring System for Suspected COVID-19 Patient in Quarantine

Recently, COVID-19 pandemic is the most serious issue across the world. Experts and scientists are still searching for an effective vaccine and medicine to thwart this highly transmissible disease. Till date, in order to prevent the spreading of this disease, people are relying on wearing masks, sanitizing hands, quarantine and maintaining social distancing. Academicians, healthcare units and the government of all countries are trying to figure out the best way to curb down the spread of COVID-19. So, in this critical situation, it is the utmost important to design new mobile applications and hardware systems to track and monitor the health of COVID-19-affected patients. In this paper, a smart embedded system for movement tracking and health monitoring of suspected COVID-19 patient is proposed. The proposed system can be employed to prevent the community transmission. The estimated cost of the proposed system at component level is around rupees two thousand. This system will also be helpful for the hospital and local authorities.