A Novel Smart Hospital for Isolation of COVID-19
Patients
Abstract— In this paper we describe a smart and
innovative system which provides prime contribution to our
society in this pandemic situation. We propose a novel smart
hospital with multi featured equipments along with fashionable
isolation ward for COVID-19 patients. A website interface has
been proposed under anyone can visit and after knowing the
status of the beds either for the isolation or emergency ward
they can easily book from remote location. A QR code with
registration number will be provided to the users. These users
may reach to the hospital and have to pass through the QR
code scanner for verification and sanitization process. A pre-
evaluation section has been defined where proper mask at face
will be detected with thermal scanner facility. All the designed
section is controlled and monitor by control unit through
server. Well featured with multiple sensors a unique ward is
designed where oxygen level sensor is used to sense the level of
oxygen and if the level of oxygen of patient is less than defined
value supply of oxygen will switch on the supply automatically.
Doctor will monitor and take care of patients through CCTV
and video conferencing. The entire sub design unit is controlled
and monitored via hybrid network and IoT.
Keywords— COVID-19, IoT, Isolation Ward, Pre-
Evaluation Section, Hybrid Network, Smart Hospital
I. INTRODUCTION
Increasing cases of COVID-19 have been a major concern
for many countries nowadays. The virus when infected in
the lungs leads to major problems comprising of mild to
severe symptoms. People who have fundamental clinical
issues like cardiovascular sickness, diabetes, constant
respiratory illness, and disease can get infected easily and it
could even lead to their death [1]. The disease is causing
death to many people all over the world. The second wave
of COVID-19 comes with many symptoms, hence confusing
people to interpret whether they are suffering from the
disease or not. There have been many types of research
leading to a solution for the disease. Still, we are facing a
shortage of doctors, beds, and hospitals. The chances of
getting infected while treatment of the patients are very
high, it will affect the ward boys, nurses, and doctors. Many
systems focusing on the day-to-day analysis of hospitals
functioning are available in the market which gives
information about the functioning of hospitals and also
keeps a track of it [2]. These frameworks should be
refreshed to be more smoothed out, diminish copy tests or
methodology and mechanize the manual interaction [3].
Many works have been done so far making the hospitals
self-sufficient and helping both the patients and the hospital
administration using hybrid cloud, internet of things,
machine learning, and artificial intelligence [4]. Using
hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence the management part
of the hospital can be automatized entirely [5]. On applying
machine learning we can also enable the system to detect
cleaning and filtration of data collected automatically [6].
Due to advancements in technology doctors are seen with
iPads containing the information of patients [7]. The
creation of a huge database may prove useful to the patients
in several ways [8]. Abound together client personality
confirmation stage, a brought together server farm, brought
together cloud administrations, and bound together insight is
found in a smart hospital [9]. Without the assistance of a
hybrid cloud framework, it is difficult to extend admittance
to medical services in a moderate way [10]. Integration of
artificial intelligence, machine learning, and IoT is multi-
dimensional data assembling, handling, and showplace for
the medical clinic [11-12]. Research has been done on
frameworks that can perform continuous observing
furthermore, the early admonition of patient exercises in the
ward, which mirrors the situational attention to smart
hospitals [13-14]. Few authors had proposed an image
processing based system for proper mask positing [15].
Generation of QR codes for each people can also prove to
be useful in determining the symptoms along with thermal
scanning [16]. Proper masking is also very essential to break
the chain of corona virus. Around 80% of people suffering
from -19 have mild symptoms [17]. However, these are the
main carrier of the virus leading to infections. People having
mild symptoms don’t need special treatment and can fully
recover when isolated and treated with care. The best way to
break the chain of the spread of the virus is by isolating the
people having mild symptoms [18].
In this paper, we are proposing a smart hospital equipped
with smart isolation wards and capable of self-oxygen level
monitoring along with automatic switching on the oxygen
supply when needed. The process will start from an easy
hassle-free registration process through a mobile application
or by the website and continues at the entrance. Availability
of the beds and automatic sanitization system, thermal
scanning zone with a smart mask positioning system is
presented. The bed will contain an alarm which the patient
can press in case of any emergency and a Wi-Fi-enabled
screen for routine video consultation and entertainment of
the patient. The automatic system will also prevent wastage
of oxygen as well as the patient will not be needed to
monitored regularly by the visit in person. Using the
technology the doctors can keep a track of their condition
from a distance. The patient will be monitored at a regular
interval of two hours and the patient’s information will be
updated to the doctor’s office with the use of hybrid cloud
and IoT. We had also connected a heartbeat sensor and a
thermal sensor in the isolation ward. All the data will be
updated regularly on the official website of the isolation
Ankur Utsav
1
, Amit Abhishek
2
, Ratna Priya
3
, Ashiya Zabeen
4
1,2,3
Department of Electronics and Communication,
4
Department of Computer Science
1,2,4
Birla Institute of Technology, Patna Campus, India,
3
Government Engineering College, Vaishali, India
1
ankur.utsav007@gmail.com
2
abhi.amit814@gmail.com
3
mail2ratnapriya@gmail.com
4
zabeenashiya@gmail.com
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12th ICCCNT 2021
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