Design and Fabrication of Smart Automated Shoes Sanitizing System Based on Arduino

Abstract

Hospitals, shopping malls, and public places are crowded areas and easily infected by COVID-19. Poor or inadequate hand washing and shoe hygiene are problematic in hospitals, malls, offices, and house settings, so they are a significant source of contracted infections. The World Health Organization (WHO) advised us to wash hands, wear a mask, maintain social distance, and disinfect personal belongings to prevent coronavirus spread. Therefore, Automated Shoes Sanitizer System was proposed and developed in this project. This innovative system is a touch-less sanitizer system for sanitizing shoes to reduce contact risk and prevent coronavirus from spreading. This Automated Shoes Sanitizing System can sense the proximity with the help of an ultrasonic sensor and sends a signal to the microcontroller. The programming for this innovation is written using the Arduino software and interface with the Arduino UNO board. The Arduino UNO is a microcontroller responsible for coordinating the system, such as ON/OFF the liquid flows, sensing the shoes, etc. As a result, an ultrasonic sensor will detect the shoes/objects within 60cm and disinfection the shoes/objects automatically. Then, the system will stop disinfection automatically if the ultrasonic sensor detects no shoes/objects. In conclusion, an Automated Shoes Sanitizing System has been designed and developed to sanitize the shoes automatically. This innovation project can be modified for future work by combining a body sanitizer system to sanitize the body and shoes.