iWorksafe: Towards Healthy Workplaces During COVID-19 With an Intelligent Phealth App for Industrial Settings

Authors: Kaiser, M. Shamim ;

Mahmud, Mufti ;

Noor, Manan Binth Taj;

Zenia, Nusrat Zerin;

Mamun, Shamim Al;

Mahmud, K. M. Abir;

Azad, Saiful;

Aradhya, V. N. Manjunath;

Stephan, Punitha;

Stephan, Thompson;

Kannan, Ramani;

Hanif, Mohammed;

Sharmeen, Tamanna;

Chen, Tianhua;

Hussain, Amir

Source: IEEE Access

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: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3050193

Abstract

The recent outbreak of the novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) has given rise to diverse health issues due to its high transmission rate and limited treatment options. Almost the whole world, at some point of time, was placed in lock-down in an attempt to stop the spread of the virus, with resulting psychological and economic sequela. As countries start to ease lock-down measures and reopen industries, ensuring a healthy workplace for employees has become imperative. Thus, this paper presents a mobile app-based intelligent portable healthcare (pHealth) tool, called i WorkSafe, to assist industries in detecting possible suspects for COVID-19 infection among their employees who may need primary care. Developed mainly for low-end Android devices, the i WorkSafe app hosts a fuzzy neural network model that integrates data of employees’ health status from the industry’s database, proximity and contact tracing data from the mobile devices, and user-reported COVID-19 self-test data. Using the built-in Bluetooth low energy sensing technology and K Nearest Neighbor and K-means techniques, the app is capable of tracking users’ proximity and trace contact with other employees. Additionally, it uses a logistic regression model to calculate the COVID-19 self-test score and a Bayesian Decision Tree model for checking real-time health condition from an intelligent e-health platform for further clinical attention of the employees. Rolled out in an apparel factory on 12 employees as a test case, the pHealth tool generates an alert to maintain social distancing among employees inside the industry. In addition, the app helps employees to estimate risk with possible COVID-19 infection based on the collected data and found that the score is effective in estimating personal health condition of the app user.

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Kaiser, M., Mahmud, M., Noor, M., Zenia, N., Mamun, S., Mahmud, K., Azad, S., Aradhya, V., Stephan, P., Stephan, T., Kannan, R., Hanif, M., Sharmeen, T., Chen, T. & Hussain, A. 2021, 'iWorksafe: Towards Healthy Workplaces During COVID-19 With an Intelligent Phealth App for Industrial Settings', IEEE Access, 9, pp. 13814-13828. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3050193

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