Augmented Reality-Based COVID-19 SOP Compliance : Social Distancing Monitoring and Reporting System based on IOT

The outbreak of the coronavirus, COVID-19, has been officially declared a pandemic by the WHO since the beginning of 2020, as there are 175 million confirmed cases along with 3.78 million deaths globally as of April 2021. Because physical contact that occurs daily critically accelerates the spread of this disease, a new Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) was specially designed to control civilians’ outdoor social activities through large-scale social distancing methods. Individuals who violate the order will be fined with a compound of not more than RM 1,000 or a jail term of not more than six months or both. This paper presents a mobile application which aims to help civilians control their physical distance towards other individuals, to accelerate social distancing and flatten the curve of increasing cases. In this era where smart devices are largely accessible by people of all backgrounds and age groups, this project can make use of the modern technology that found in the smartphones to notify users and also enable them to monitor the other individuals to avoid physical contact from each other. This project also provides two different types of mediums in order to monitor the distances of users, first mediums is by utilizing the Bluetooth sensor as a beacon that allows users to know if there are other Bluetooth-enabled devices which are too close in contact. Another medium is visually enabling the users to monitor their distance in the physical location based on the camera module through the Augmented Reality. This paper is also analyses some of the methods used in previous projects in the field of information technology which were used to monitor and detect civilians’ social distancing patterns.