Chapter 2

Internet of Things-based smart helmet to detect possible COVID-19 infections

Chanchal Ahlawat and Rajalakshmi Krishnamurthi,    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jaypee Institute of Information and Technology, Noida, India

Abstract

At the beginning of 2020, while the world was celebrating New Year’s Eve, China’s headquarter of the World Health Organization came across a case of pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, China and was termed as coronavirus. Initially the symptoms were fever, cold, and cough; so thermal screening was done that could cause infection to the medical staff. In this chapter we discuss the design of the system known as smart helmet that has the capability to detect coronavirus automatically by using thermal ...

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