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(The Gist of Science Reporter) AI-based Cyber-physical System

[August-2020]

To monitor social distancing in public places, researchers at IIT Kharagpur’s Autonomous Ground Vehicle (AGV under the Centre of Excellence for Robotics Research have developed a low-cost Artificial Intelligence based cyber-physical system. The device will give a proximity alert whenever there is a violation of social distancing norms.
The device can visually detect the gap between individuals and play a proximity alert sound
through audio output, for any violation of the social distancing norms. The device uses images in the field view of a camera and computes the distance as per criterion set by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.