This device helps to detect the symptoms of COVID-19, so on help individuals quarantine themselves and practice social distancing. The DIY works by detecting the fundamental symptoms of the virus, which are: increased body heat and shortness of breath. Although it's not necessary that shortness of breath will cause low levels of oxygen in your blood in general situations cases, coronavirus causes infection in your lungs which results in low oxygen level or hypoxia. So, today in our device we'll try and seek for these symptoms of the virus to detect potential suspects so they'll get an extra check-up for confirmation.
we will be checking for 2 symptoms:
- raised blood heat, and
- blood oxygen percentage.
First, it checks the temperature of the body employing a sensor.
Next, if it detects that temperature is more than usual then it passes the primary symptom to positive, indicating the symptom on OLED display as s1+
Then, using the Max30100 sensor it monitors the heartbeat and oxygen percentage
If the device calculates that the oxygen percentage within the blood is below the conventional oxygen level then the device passes the second symptom also, indicating the symptom on OLED display as s2 + If both the symptoms are positive, the person might need to be contracted the virus and may be taken to a hospital for confirmation and treatment.
For this, we will use two kinds of sensors. the primary one is for temperature measurement. Here I'm employing a Mpu6050 sensor. I’ve found that it gives the roughly accurate result, although I do recommend you utilize any good dedicated temperature sensor, like Lm 35.
For blood oxygen percentage calculation I'm using the Max30100 sensor.
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