Project Goals

Short term goals of the research project


Long term goals of the research project


Aims and objectives of the research project

The aim of this project is to develop a lightweight privacy encryption-based contact tracing system, that will be suitable for practical deployment on resource-constrained wearable devices which have small data storage capacity and battery life with case-based referral to contain the spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria.

The objectives are to develop:

  • an IOT-based wearable device and an integrated USSD-based mobile app for acquisition of location and health information
  • a real-time, privacy-preserving contact tracing system
  • an automated system, driven by deep ensemble learning, for predicting spread of COVID-19 cases in Nigeria
  • multi-attribute analysis and different introspective studies by modelling the spread patterns of COVID-19 cases