JU students develop device which can tell if a coughing person is a COVID-19 carrier

Kolkata, Apr 28 () Two students of the JadavpurUniversity have developed an intelligent device which willanalyse if a coughing person is a COVID-19 carrier.

A teacher of Innovation Council of JadavpurUniversity said on Tuesday that two undergraduate students ofthe Department of Electronics and TelecommunicationEngineering have developed the device which will track acoughing person and analyse if the same person is a possiblesuspect of novel coronavirus.

The device can be used as a first-level screeningsystem to identify the COVID-19 carrier with available dataand thus help in containing the spread of the disease.

The non-contact device, which has embedded image andsound sensors, will work even if the person is away from thedevice and can even identify multiple coughing persons at thesame time.

The device can be used in quarantine centres, office-spaces, classrooms or built-up areas with gatherings formonitoring the people present there.

The teacher said this device can also be used indrones for identifying COVID-19 suspects in public places inthe open.

Two students - Annesya Banerjee and Achal Nilhani -both third year undergraduate students in the Department ofElectronics and Telecommunication Engineering developed thedevice. They were guided by their Prof P Venkateswaran.

The device has got a very positive response from ICMRKolkata and several doctors treating COVID-19 patients andwill soon go for real-time clinical testing with COVID-19patients, the teacher added. SUSRG RG