Development of An Android Application for Viewing Covid-19 Containment Zones and
Monitoring Violators Who are Trespassing into It Using Firebase and Geofencing
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Mallik R
; Hazarika AP
; Ghosh Dastidar S
; Sing D
; Bandyopadhyay R
Trans Indian Natl Acad Eng
2020[]; 5
(2
): 163-179
PMID38624426
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The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus,
Covid-19 as pandemic across the world. With its alarming surge of affected cases
throughout the world, lockdown, and awareness (social distancing, use of masks
etc.) among people are found to be the only means for restricting the community
transmission. In a densely populated country like India, it is very difficult to
prevent the community transmission even during lockdown without social awareness
and precautionary measures taken by the people. Recently, several containment
zones had been identified throughout the country and divided into red, orange and
green zones, respectively. The red zones indicate the infection hotspots, orange
zones denote some infection and green zones indicate an area with no infection.
This paper mainly focuses on development of an Android application which can
inform people of the Covid-19 containment zones and prevent trespassing into
these zones. This Android application updates the locations of the areas in a
Google map which are identified to be the containment zones. The application also
notifies the users if they have entered a containment zone and uploads the user's
IMEI number to the online database. To achieve all these functionalities, many
tools, and APIs from Google like Firebase and Geofencing API are used in this
application. Therefore, this application can be used as a tool for creating
further social awareness about the arising need of precautionary measures to be
taken by the people of India.
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