Mobile Geo-Fencing Triggers for Alerting Entries Into COVID-19 Containment Zones Using IoT

Abstract

In a thickly populated nation like India, it is hard to forecast community transmission of COVID-19. Hence, a number of containment zones had been recognized all over the country separated into red, orange, and green zones, individually. People are restricted to move into these containment zones. This chapter focuses on informing the public about the containment zone when they are in travel and also sends an alert to the police when a person enters the containment zone without permission using the containment zone alert system. This chapter suggests a containment zone alert system by means of geo-fencing technology to identify the movement of public, deliver info about the danger to the public in travel and also send an alert to the police when there is an entry or exit detected in the containment zone by the use of location-based services (LBS). By creating a fence virtually called geo-fence at the containment zones established based on the government info, this system monitors public movements like entry and exit to fence.