IIT-Mandi develops app for Covid patients

Tribune News Service

Mandi, February 4

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Mandi have developed LakshmanRekha, an artificial intelligence biometric-driven home quarantine management application (HQMA) for Covid patients. According to them, the application uses a combination of biometric verification, geofencing and artificial intelligence to continuously monitor and accurately detect the identity of a home quarantined person.

“Besides quarantine management, this application can also serve as an unbreachable mobile phone platform for normal (non-Covid) mobile users, situations like curfew or any national emergency for identifying the violators or lawbreakers,” said a researcher.

Dr Aditya Nigam, Associate Professor, School of Computing & Electrical Engineering, IIT Mandi, said, “We have developed a pilot version of the LakshmanRekha mobile application and tested it over small datasets. The obtained results are very good and now we are working to add more functionality, scalability and usability to make it ready for deployment.”

“Considering the fact that we are still working on tracking the rapid spread of coronavirus in society, it has become crucial to continuously monitor the movements of every person with symptoms, LakshmanRekha can play a key role in the home quarantine management system,” he added.