Two students from Jadavpur University have developed an intelligent device that will analyze a coughing person if they are COVID-19 carriers. A teacher at Jadavpur University’s Innovation Council said on Tuesday that two graduate students from the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering have developed equipment that will track a coughing person and analyze if the same person is a possible suspect of the novel coronavirus.

The device can be used as a first-level screening system to identify COVID-19 carriers with the available data and thus helps in spreading the disease.

Non-contact devices, which have embedded images and sound sensors, can identify individuals with multiple coughs at the same time, even if the person is away from the device.

The device can be used to quarantine centers, office-spaces, classrooms, or gatherings in built-up areas to monitor people present there.

The teacher said that the device can also be used in drones to identify COVID-19 suspects in public places in the open.

Two students – Annesya Banerjee and Achal Nilhani – both graduated in the Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Department. He was directed by their Prof. P. Venkateswaran.

The teacher said that the device has received very positive response from ICMR Kolkata and several doctors treating COVID-19 patients and will soon go for real-time clinical trials with COVID-19 patients.