Maintaining Social Distancing in Pandemic Using Smartphones With Acoustic Waves
Vaibhav Rupapara, Manideep Narra, Naresh Kumar Gunda, Swapnil Gandhi, Kaushika Reddy Thipparthy
Abstract
The awareness of “social distancing” is something we have heard because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Second wave of COVID-19 is started, and maintaining social distance and managing our psychological and physical well-being are the new challenges today. We are constantly reminded to maintain a safe distance from other people around us to stop the spread of COVID-19. But what if there was any solution that could make us aware if someone is in your social distance radius and alert us to maintain enough distance? Our article describes a solution using smartphones that delivers near-field peer-to-peer communication by using the present hardware to convert the messages in sound waves.