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The Instrumentation Engineering Department at Vocational Faculty, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) succeeded in initiating an innovation called ‘Co-Saber: Corona Smartband and Smart Detector’, a smart presence technology to prevent the spread of the corona virus in small and medium industries. Chair of the Armies Team, Eko Rian Fauzi, said that since June, the government has implemented a new habitual adaptation period to restore the wheels of the economy in Indonesia, but the impact of this policy has apparently added a new cluster to the spread of Covid-19. They considered the presence method using fingerprint to be one of the causes of the spread of the virus. Therefore, Co-Saber is here as a solution.

Co-Saber consists of two devices, namely Smartband and Smart Detector which are connected by an internet connection. The smartband is specially designed to resemble a bracelet that workers will wear. This tool functions to monitor the travel history of workers so that this tool is accompanied by a Global Positioning System -GPS. Meanwhile, the Smart Detector is used as a non-contact presence tool before workers enter the work location. To minimize physical contact, a face detection feature is embedded to identify workers who are in attendance. In this device, there is also an infrared ray-based temperature sensor to measure the body temperature of workers without making physical contact.

For how it works, first, the ultrasonic sensor will identify the presence of someone before the device. If he or she is detected, the camera will later take an image of the worker's face. Then, the results will be processed by face detection technology to find out the identity of the worker who is attending. Furthermore, the travel history of the worker will be retrieved from Cloud Storage and automatically identified whether the worker has visited one or more locations on the Covid-19 blacklist. The results of the temperature identification and the location visited will be reprocessed and displayed by the indicator. Eko revealed that previously, there was a similar technology in 2014, especially in the use of face detection as an online presence. What distinguishes this study is that the Co-Saber technology is equipped with features of measuring body temperature and identifying the travel history so that it can adjust to the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic currently hitting the world.