IoT and Blockchain-Based Mask Surveillance System for COVID-19 Prevention Using Deep Learning

Abstract

On the edge of the worldwide public health crisis, the COVID-19 disease has become a serious headache for its destructive nature on humanity worldwide. Wearing a facial mask can be an effective possible solution to mitigate the spreading of the virus and reduce the death rate. Thus, wearing a face mask in public places such as shopping malls, hotels, restaurants, homes, and offices needs to be enforced. This research work comes up with a solution of mask surveillance system utilizing the mechanism of modern computations like Deep Learning (DL), Internet of things (IoT), and Blockchain. The absence or displacement of the mask will be identified with a raspberry pi, a camera module, and the operations of DL and Machine Learning (ML). The detected information will be sent to the cloud server with the mechanism of IoT for real-time data monitoring. The proposed model also includes a Blockchain-based architecture to secure the transactions of mask detection and create efficient data security, monitoring, and storage from intruders. This research further includes an IoT-based mask detection scheme with signal bulbs, alarms, and notifications in the smartphone. To find the efficacy of the proposed method, a set of experiments has been enumerated and interpreted. This research work finds the highest accuracy of 99.95% in the detection and classification of facial masks. Some related experiments with IoT and Block-chain-based integration have also been performed and calculated the corresponding experimental data accordingly. A System Usability Scale (SUS) has been accomplished to check the satisfaction level of use and found the SUS score of 77%. Further, a comparison among existing solutions on three emergent technologies is included to track the significance of the proposed scheme. However, the proposed system can be an efficient mask surveillance system for COVID-19 and workable in real-time mask detection and classification.

Integration of Internet of Things and blockchain technology in healthcare domain: A systematic literature review

“…Mask surveillance: Mask surveillance in healthcare industry plays an important role in medical environment to provide mask security in COVID situations to the patient to identify the correct use and distribution of masks. Rahman et al 69 have applied blockchain and IoT technology to the mask surveillance system to make it more secure and contributed to the field of healthcare integration by incorporating IoT and blockchain technology. 9.…”

“…Smart contract is used with the integration of blockchain technology in the revolutionized and business cases nowadays and called as Blockchain 2.0. Previous studies 21,22,25,[27][28][29][30][31][37][38][39][40]42,45,46,[48][49][50][51]53,[55][56][57][58][60][61][62][63][67][68][69][70][71][73][74][75][76][77][78] used the smart contracts to trigger function in order to provide different aspects like privacy, security, integrity etc. 2.…”

“…Previous studies 24,32,33,41,46,49–51,73 have applied blockchain and IoT technology to automate and provide smart features of different aspects of medical things like monitoring, smart ambulance, and smart wheelchair in healthcare domain to make it more secure and contributed to the field of healthcare integration by incorporating IoT and blockchain technology. Mask surveillance : Mask surveillance in healthcare industry plays an important role in medical environment to provide mask security in COVID situations to the patient to identify the correct use and distribution of masks. Rahman et al 69 have applied blockchain and IoT technology to the mask surveillance system to make it more secure and contributed to the field of healthcare integration by incorporating IoT and blockchain technology. Medical image retrieval : Medical image in healthcare industry plays an important role in medical environment to provide image‐related benefits to the patient to identify different health issues. Shen et al 28 have applied blockchain and IoT technology to medical image retrieval to make it more secure and contributed to the field of healthcare integration by incorporating IoT and blockchain technology. Medical record : Medical record in healthcare industry plays an important role in medical environment to provide data related to the patient's health to identify different health issues and make it visible to the doctors, medical staff, and patients about diseases and health parameters via automated and remote‐based systems.…”

“…Smart contract is used with the integration of blockchain technology in the revolutionized and business cases nowadays and called as Blockchain 2.0. Previous studies 21,22,25,27–31,37–40,42,45,46,48–51,53,55–58,60–63,67–71,73–78 used the smart contracts to trigger function in order to provide different aspects like privacy, security, integrity etc. Ethereum : It is a blockchain technology based upon a mechanism that is open sourced and not centralized. It is a cryptocurrency that is native and employs the use of smart contracts.…”