NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, MAY 4
The KAVASAM software developed by Combat Vehicles Research & Development Establishment (CVRDE), is a unique framework formulated for tracking and resource allocation thereby aiding to identify and suppress the COVID 19 pandemic in Avadi Corporation.
Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment (CVRDE), Avadi a laboratory of DRDO delivers the special software “Kavasam” to Corporation of Avadi for Covid-19 tracking and resource allocation. #MoDAgainstCorona #SayYes2Precautions #IndiaFightsCorona pic.twitter.com/bdOv7cb6YR
— Defence PRO Chennai (@Def_PRO_Chennai) May 4, 2020
The Software has four level hierarchy of Super admin, Epicentre head, team leader and health worker are defined. The software framework consists of a web based application for centralized supervision and approval by the super admin and Epicentre heads.
The Super admin will be the overall responsible authority, he can create epicentres and allocate it to the concerned Epicentre heads. Reports can be created and the overall status can be visualized in the dashboard. Highlighting of the houses in map with different colours and legends is also provided to easily identify suspects.
Epicentre head/ health officer will be responsible for the Epicentre allotted and he has the privilege to create team leaders and streets and houses for survey within the radius automatically/manually to the also select 1.5km/3km/5km radius from Epicentre and assign the team leaders.
Android based app is developed for the Team leaders consisting of a set of doctors to create health workers and assign the streets manually or automatically to them based on the number of houses in a street for house to house surveillance and data using the same app the health workers can collect the relevant data from the collection and also the data collected by them can be approved.
The App is developed for geofencing of the home or institutionally quarantined/allotted houses and submits their recommendations to the team leader.
Another App developed to monitor the movement of quarantined persons. This App provides notification to Super admin, Epicentre Head and Team Leader/police if the quarantined person moves 100m away from their bi-directional approval and monitoring process is formulated and SMS notification at all stages is also provided to ensure authentication. Map views and generation of various reports required at different levels is also configured.
A resourceful database for the corporation is created with Geocoding of streets and number of houses in each street. This database will be automatically appended with the data collected by the health worker at allocated streets can be used for any resource allocation like vaccine for COVID 19 by the health department or distribution of other resources viz food, water, ration by the revenue departments at a later stage. Also, counselling of people and effective communication conducting surveys and also aid during disaster like flood etc.
The spin of strategies can be established. The software can be enhanced for benefits include creation of GIS map for house/population attributes due to systematic data collection across the area, a release from Defence PRO said.
