IoT Enabled Geofencing-Based System for Monitoring and Enforcing COVID-19 Control Measures in Workplaces, Service Areas and Distributed Home Quarantine

Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the whole world is thinking of new mechanisms, preventive measures to protect human life from the widespread of the pandemic. Many countries imposed COVID-19 control measures to limit further infection spread. However, controlling the spread of COVID-19 without taking severe measures (e.g. lockdown and full quarantine) that have undesirable economic effects becomes a major challenge. By exploiting the modern and available information and communication technologies, innovative solutions may emerge to face and deal with this crisis. In this paper, an innovative and flexible solution based on the exploitation and integration of geofencing, and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies is proposed to enhance the crisis management framework in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The proposed solution is designed to monitor and impose COVID-19 control measures in different environments such as distributed home quarantine, workplaces, service areas, and COVID-19 infected zones.