Bhubaneswar: An 11-year-old girl of Khandagiri area in Odisha capital has developed a model that can help unsuspecting people, including those with disabilities to know about a Covid containment zone.
Pratibha Pallai, a class-VI student of Vikash Global School here, has developed a device that helps in carrying out surveillance in COVID containment zones and prevent trespassing of outsiders by minimising the requirement of barricading the containment zones.
The application-based device namely ‘Coronavirus Human Detector System’ runs on arduino codes. First the user will have to install the application in a laptop and then connect it to the device. After the device is linked to the app, the user can set the required radius of the zone he/she wants to keep under surveillance.
If anyone enters the zone, a buzzer will ring and a red bulb on the device will glow indicating that someone is trespassing.
Once the device is installed at the entry of any area or business establishment, mall, educational institution or market which are declared as containment zones, the passerby can get a hint about the status. Simultaneously, the users can also know about the trespassing once people come close to the zone.
Pratibha says a prototype of the device has been developed and it can be produced commercially.
An enthusiast in robotics, Pratibha has so far bagged 15 Olympiad awards.
