MySD: A Smart Social Distancing Monitoring System

Due to COVID-19 pandemic, society need to embrace and adopt new norm that includes practising social distance to break the transmission. The smart social distance application or tracker can help people to be constantly monitored and reminded to adhere to this practice. Direct impact that can be seen from this application will be lower or minimum number of COVID-19 cases due to high level of social distance compliance. This paper will present an innovative solution called MySD which stand for “My Safe Distance” that help users or public to observe social distance advice closely. It leverages smart phone hardware features that typically has Bluetooth transceiver as well GPS to determine safe distance and required level compliance.

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