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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Digital Public Health
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1448901
This article is part of the Research Topic Extracting Insights from Digital Public Health Data using Artificial Intelligence, Volume III View all 4 articles

HealthPass: A Contactless Check-in and Adaptive Access Control System for Lowering Cluster Infection Risk in Public Health Crisis

Provisionally accepted
Guofeng Luo Guofeng Luo 1*Yufei Wang Yufei Wang 1*Linghong Hong Linghong Hong 2Xin He Xin He 1*Jiaru Wang Jiaru Wang 1*Qu Shen Qu Shen 2*Cheng Wang Cheng Wang 1*Longbiao CHEN Longbiao CHEN 1*
  • 1 Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
  • 2 Xiang'an Hospital, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian Province, China

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    Ensuring effective measures against the spread of the virus is paramount for educational institutions and workplaces as they resume operations amidst the ongoing public health crisis.Creating a touchless and privacy-conscious check-in procedure for visitor assessment is pivotal in safeguarding venues against potential virus transmission. In our study, we develop an interaction-free entry system featuring anonymous visitors voluntarily providing, while introducing an adaptable venue entry management mechanism that accounts for both visitors' potential risk and the venue's capacity, aimed at curbing the risk of localized infections within venues. In addition to assessing the liability of visitors based on their voluntarily providing data through radar map analysis, our method also involves evaluating the venue's situation by quantifying its risk from multiple dimensions. A queuing model is then employed to control the visitor's access adaptively according to the liability of visitors and the availability of venues, respectively. Since May 2020, our university campus has been the operational site for the implemented system, catering to the needs of 29,791 visitors spread across 52 distinct venues. Utilizing the real-world implementation, we carry out a series of simulation experiments and case studies to verify the effectiveness of the HealthPass system in lowering infection risks.

    Keywords: Contactless check-in, Mobile application, Location-based Services, Social Distance, Public Health

    Received: 14 Jun 2024; Accepted: 11 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Luo, Wang, Hong, He, Wang, Shen, Wang and CHEN. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Guofeng Luo, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
    Yufei Wang, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
    Xin He, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
    Jiaru Wang, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
    Qu Shen, Xiang'an Hospital, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian Province, China
    Cheng Wang, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
    Longbiao CHEN, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

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