SmartCovSens: A Multimodal Approach for Detection of COVID-19

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has been announced as a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” and further identified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Considering the unprecedented spread of the disease across the world, the development of noncontact and unobtrusive methods for quick screening of potential carriers is the need of the hour. The chapter describes a multimodal approach for rapid screening of potential COVID-19 carriers based on symptomatic sensing using a combination of sensors, followed by generation of a metric to indicate the severity of symptoms. The proposed system is likely to be a significant addition to the present body of systems to scan COVID-19 carriers. © 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.