In Maharashtra, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Nagpur in collaboration with IIT Jodhpur and Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Nagpur has indigenously designed & developed a model for effective tracking and monitoring of COVID-19 positive and suspect patients.

This device is in the form of a smart wristband. It is conceptualized by Dr. Prathamesh Kamble, Assistant Professor, Physiology, AIIMS Nagpur.

Dr. Kamble informed that this wristband can provide mobile free operation, using a geofencing technology that will provide a real-time warning on any breach in the quarantine zone. The wristband, in addition, will provide real-time, objective and reliable data of vitals of the wearer like the temperature, pulse rate, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation, so that the quarantined person will get a health alarm thus helping them seek early medical help. This move will warn the monitoring personnel like the local authorities and officials.

Director of AIIMS Nagpur, Maj Gen (Dr) Vibha Dutta, said that tracking and monitoring all the contacts is a very labour intensive procedure, the newly invented wristband will definitely make this task much easier and cost effective.

Meanwhile, the group of innovators from Gujarat Technological University, GTU has come up with a unique hand sanitizer bands- called G Bands using Thermoplastic elastomers. These bands can be used on the go for sanitizing hands just by pressing it.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, keeping hands sanitised has become a new necessity, the G Bands offer a convenient option for people to maintain hand hygiene.

The alumni of the 2010 batch of GTU Sarthak Baxi, Kartik Sheladiya, Sagar Thakkar, Karan Patel and Jagrut Dave thought of a product that can replace a sanitizer spray or bottle while going out. So they came up with refillable and wearable G Bands.  Kartik Baxi said that one dose of liquid sanitizer once filled in G Bands can be sprayed for more than 20 times in a day.

Vice-Chancellor of GTU Dr. Navin Sheth said, apart from the G Bands, the innovators from GTU have come with a range of innovative products in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic.