In view of current pandemic covid testing plays a key role in fighting the pandemic. Covid testing is done in covid testing booths that provide a safe covid testing environment. Now the testing process involves the following steps.

• Registering the person’s name, contact no address manually
• Taking a swab sample of the person
• Adding the swab sample number against the persons registered details
• Sending the data along with the samples to the lab
• Manually informing (calling/sms) the patient about the result

Now this is a very long process with a lot of manual steps which can lead to human errors because of huge number of samples coming in for testing. So here we propose a system whereby we automate around 70 % of the manual entry work and allow for a single point and fast covid testing system using IOT thingspeak technology. The main aim of this project is to design a completely automated instant contactless COVID testing booth system by which person details is monitored using RFID technology. It is used for ensuring the person details like name, Aadhar scan specific information by which the system totally isolates the test person from the user and also makes the process fast and error free by automating registration process too. When the Raspberry pi gets the data from the RFID Reader, Automatically the tag details related to the person along with the sample collection details will be sent as an SMS along with the test results to the stored mobile number.  

With the new system the testing process works as follows:

• No need for separate registration, the system uses RFID technology for instant Aadhar card scan registration details monitoring.
• The Test person provides the sample number of the person from inside the booth using provided RFID tag.
• The system uses buzzer to inform patient that his test is done and next person to come forward.
• The data collected by the time is transferred over to Lab using IOT ESP8266 Wi-Fi module automatically before next person comes ahead.
• The lab incharge can view the no of samples tested in real time and can update sample test results too on Thingspeak server through Wi-Fi module.
• When lab incharge updates test result of a sample, a SMS using GSM modem is instantly sent to the respective person by the system itself.

Thus we fully automate the Covid booth testing process, making it faster, safer and error free to help fight the pandemic in a better manner. This project makes use of an onboard computer, which is commonly termed as raspberry pi processor. It acts as heart of the project.              

The Major Building blocks of this project are:  

1. Power Supply.
2. Raspberry pi.
3. GSM Modem.
4. RFID reader and tag.
5. LED Indicators.
6. LCD display.
7. Buzzer.

     

Software’s used:

• Linux OS.
• Python programming.
• Express SCH for Circuit design.

         

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