An Improved Social Distancing Mobile Application Development Procedures for Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Health systems worldwide promote maintaining social distancing actions to break the chain of Covid-19 infection by decreasing the rate of interactions and physical near contact with persons outside of one’s home. This can be achieved by maintaining a two-metre distance between individuals. The mobile Application known as Kaduna trace application (KDTRACE), was designed as one of the measures to reduce the spread of the virus by maintaining social distance in Kaduna State. The application can be improved to enhance compliance, adherence to social distancing and quarantine rule to reduce the spread of the pandemic. Therefore, this paper improved the mobile application system by including an element that can help officials in monitoring the activities of Kaduna State citizens. The improved application can be integrated on mobile devices and wearable devices like smart watches and smart hand bands are used. It has many functions that include provide users with information related to COVID-19, monitors individuals in quarantine, track contacts that are in close proximities, and trails individuals tested positive for the virus. The improve application also plays an important role in enforcing COVID-19 guidelines. To gain this, both Bluetooth and Geographical positioning/information system (GPS) gadgets are used. A flutter written in DART programming language is used for the frontend design while firebase is used for the backend design. The result is an app that is compatible with both mobile (iOS, and android) based devices and wearable smart gadgets to help individuals in conforming with social distancing and quarantine rules in the State.