Wireless Technologies for Social Distancing in the Time of COVID-19: Literature Review, Open Issues, and Limitations

Murad, Sallar Salam; Yussof, Salman; Badeel, Rozin

doi:10.3390/s22062313

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“…SD, despite its enormous potential, is ultimately successful whenever deployed correctly. Nevertheless, it is not a simple process to achieve due to multiple difficulties, along with the following [ 14 ]: (i) certain SD scenarios could produce a negative influence on the economy, (ii) specific SD systems violate personal rights, such as data privacy, people’s locations, and privacy, (iii) people’s behaviour is hard to change, and (iv) difficulties arise whenever there is a high population density. The approach presented in this article for the SD problem seeks to minimize these difficulties.…”

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“…In order to keep everyone in public circumstances at a harmless distance (e.g., 1.5 m), various wireless technologies have been adopted. According to [ 14 ], wireless and developing technologies monitor individuals and public places in real-time, helping to keep distance, schedule traffic into buildings, and perform contact tracing, crowd detection, prediction, and other scenarios, and have been employed in various situations for different purposes; for example, some systems trigger an alarm (keeping distance), limit access (scheduling/monitoring), and others, as shown in Figure 1 .…”

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A Novel Social Distancing Approach for Limiting the Number of Vehicles in Smart Buildings Using LiFi Hybrid-Network

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The coronavirus (COVID-19) has arisen as one of the most severe problems due to its ongoing mutations as well as the absence of a suitable cure for this virus. The virus primarily spreads and replicates itself throughout huge groups of individuals through daily touch, which regretfully can happen in several unanticipated way. As a result, the sole viable attempts to constrain the spread of this new virus are to preserve social distance, perform contact tracing, utilize suitable safety gear, and enforce quarantine measures. In order to control the virus’s proliferation, scientists and officials are considering using several social distancing models to detect possible diseased individuals as well as extremely risky areas to sustain separation and lockdown procedures. However, models and systems in the existing studies heavily depend on the human factor only and reveal serious privacy vulnerabilities. In addition, no social distancing model/technique was found for monitoring, tracking, and scheduling vehicles for smart buildings as a social distancing approach so far. In this study, a new system design that performs real-time monitoring, tracking, and scheduling of vehicles for smart buildings is proposed for the first time named the social distancing approach for limiting the number of vehicles (SDA-LNV). The proposed model employs LiFi technology as a wireless transmission medium for the first time in the social distance (SD) approach. The proposed work is considered as Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication. It might aid authorities in counting the volume of likely affected people. In addition, the proposed system design is expected to help reduce the infection rate inside buildings in areas where traditional social distancing techniques are not used or applicable.

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A Novel Social Distancing Approach for Limiting the Number of Vehicles in Smart Buildings Using LiFi Hybrid-Network

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“…Because of this, several analysts have projected a worldwide recession [7], [8]. Since there was no cure or vaccine back in 2020 and the virus was spreading rapidly, many countries have implemented various measures of social distancing [9], [10], [11], [12] to slow the spread of the pandemic and give more time for the pharmaceutical industry to develop a cure or vaccine. Few of these scenarios are contact tracing [13], tracking and monitoring [14], quarantine [15], and lockdown [16].…”

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“…However, the closure of schools and businesses means that many more people will have to work or study online, which will lead to an overwhelming rise in Internet traffic and online service needs, such as new Zoom users. Therefore, the load on the cellular networks has increased significantly [12], [17].…”

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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic Measures and Restrictions on Cellular Network Traffic in Malaysia

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, intensive controls were put in place to prevent the pandemic from spreading. People's habits have been altered by the COVID-19 measures and restrictions imposed such as social distance and lockdown measures. These unexpected changes created a significant impact on cellular networks, such as increased use of online services and content streaming, which increased the burden on wireless networks. This research work is basically a case study that aims to examine and investigate cellular network performance, including upload speed, download speed, and latency, during two periods (MCO, CMCO) in three different regions, including Kuala Lumpur, Selangor (Cheras), and Johor Bahru, to observe the effects of lockdown enforcement and other restrictions in Malaysia on cellular network traffic. We used the phone application Speedtest™ as a tool for data collection within different times during the day, considering the peak times, including morning, evening, and night times. The research findings show how COVID-19 has affected internet traffic in Malaysia significantly. This research would help perspective developers and companies to better understand and be prepared for tough times and higher load on cellular networks in future pandemics such as COVID-19.

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The MAGIC Project: A Tool for Promoting Safety in Agriculture During COVID-19 Pandemic

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COVID-19 pandemic poses a threat to global health highlighting the importance of prevention and measures of social distancing. In agriculture, cultivation operations carried out in open field by farm workers represent a serious danger in this sense. Social distancing of the workers during the labor day is not always easy to be maintained, especially for the very close rows among the plants. In 2020, the researchers of the Mechanics Section of the Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences in collaboration with the Department of Engineering of the University of Palermo, presented a project entitled "Design of a real time Monitoring and control system for AGrIcultural workers to limit the SARS-Cov-2 virus" (acronym MAGIC) to the Italian Ministry of University and Research. The aim of the project was the design of a real time monitoring and control system for workers in agriculture in order to monitor, record and control any violations of the distance among the workers. The system is based on the use of a small device equipped with a uniquely stored serial number that securely emits an alarm signal to both the worker and the manager when the distance between two employees is below the permitted threshold. A central manager perform a historical "track" that lists all the subjects with whom a person has come into close contact. The system was tested at a farm in Sicily during winter pruning in vineyard..

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Wireless Technologies for Social Distancing in the Time of COVID-19: Literature Review, Open Issues, and Limitations

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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic Measures and Restrictions on Cellular Network Traffic in Malaysia

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