IoT Based COVID Preventive System for Work Environment Kaaviya Baskaran Department of Information Technology Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering Sriperumbudur kaaviyabas@gmail.com Baskaran P Department of Information Technology Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering Sriperumbudur baskpann@gmail.com Rajaram V Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering Sriperumbudur rajaram69@gma il.co m N. Kumaratharan Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering kumaratharan@rediffmail.com Abstract - The much recent global pandemic, COVID-19 has brought drastic changes to the livelihood of people from all avenues of life across the nation. As normalcy is being slowly restored, it is also essentially crucial that the health and wellness of members are ensured. Instead of the manual biometric system, facial recognition can be deployed to mark the presence of the members. Besides, a non-contact infrared sensor can be utilized to check for the body temperature of the individuals. If the body temperature exceeds the threshold value, an intimation will be sent to the higher authorities concerning the wellness of the individual, otherwise, their presence to the organization/institution will be noted. Furthermore, using a QR scanner, the health history of each person as per the Arogya Setu app will be taken into accord. The attendance checking feature has been clubbed with health verification so that every employee will mandatorily report before the system since presence for work is important to everyone. The data generated by the static portal setup is recorded by the device daily which will then be uploaded into a database and stored on the Cloud. The system can be further advanced by including a Bluetooth module for proximity. Keywords —COVID-19,IoT, Arogya Setu,face detection I. INT RODUCT ION A coronavirus is a group of viruses which aims at impacting and infecting the respiratory system of individuals. This group of coronaviruses includes SARS and the other commonly known cold and influenza viruses. [1] However, the global pandemic caused by the well-known COVID-19 has coined a name 2019- nCoV on January 2020 by the World Health Organisation (WHO). It is expected to have its roots from the initial cases that emerged in Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province of China. [2] Multiple nurses and medical workers of the PICC crew are immersed completely into the task of taking care of the infected patients and working around the clock to restore them to their normal health conditions on a global scale. In the United States, out of the first 300 patients admitted to multiple hospitals across the city, it is noted that 60.7% of them are men. 91.3% of them required ventilator support to facilitate the breathing process. The challenge to the process of effective detection and testing is that a sizeable proportion of the population remains asymptomatic to the infection and does not display any visible symptoms of contracting the virus which makes the process of tracking its roots an arduous process.[3] However, normalcy has to be restored even though the COVID situation has left several students, teachers, and working personnel homebound. [4] IoT (Internet of Things) allows for the interconnectivity of multiple devices across several regions to ensure connectivity. [5] It can be effectively deployed in the current COVID scenario to tackle the challenges that occur in restoring normalcy while ensuring that safety and security are not compromised at any cost in organizations and institutions [6, 7]. They invent and boom in the use of mobile phones and smart appliances in the health and welfare sector has paved way for the data about each individual to be assessed and evaluated on a mass scale. By the current COVID-19 scenario, IoT offers multiple applications such as the smart ventilators and masks or the provisions made for the allowance of self- isolation at home while being monitored by the medical facilities. Several modern necessities like secured data storage systems, cloud and edge computing, intelligent data management, sensors for smart health devices [8]. What started as a country level scare in China with several speculations raised about its origin has now manifested into a global pandemic with a multitude of research carried out to determine a cure [9]. As a global pandemic, COVID-19 has been inflicting major casualties and losses to the human population across the world from all walks of life. Approximately, 31.9 million people have been affected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus with close to 977K deaths reported under the radar. The table is topped by countries namely the US, India, Brazil, and Russia accounting for the maximum number of infected individuals. In India alone, 5.73 million people were and are affected by COVID of which close to 91K people have succumbed to the virus. Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu have whooping numbers of COVID- Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on I-SMAC (IoT in Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) (I-SMAC) IEEE Xplore Part Number:CFP20OSV-ART; ISBN: 978-1-7281-5464-0 © IEEE 2020. This article is free to access and download, along with rights for full text and data mining, re-use and analysis 65