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The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak has caused a global disaster, due to the largely uncontrolled spread of the virus in the population. As there are no vaccines available, people have to take precautions to reduce this spread, with social distancing being one of the main methods presented by governments. The purpose of this paper is to provide a solution in the form of a smart chair alert system. If someone is not keeping a 1 m distance, the system will generate an alarm which will inform the users they are too close to each other.
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Hussain, W., Iftikhar, A., Grøndalen, S. (2021). A Smart Chair Alert System for Social Distance Implementation for COVID-19. In: Ahram, T., Taiar, R., Groff, F. (eds) Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Applications IV. IHIET-AI 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1378. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74009-2_62
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