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. 2020 Dec 15;8(21):16047–16071. doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.3044966

TABLE IV. Summary of Works for Pandemic Management (Acronyms Used in Table- Inline graphic: Common Objects in Context, Inline graphic).

Category Reference Target issue Technology used Hardware/API used ML involved Case studies
ML [17], 2020 Detecting ISPA SVM, KNN, Neural Networks and Naive Bayes None Yes Indonesia
[18], 2018 Predicting antigenic variants of H1N1 influenza virus SVM, KNN, Neural Networks and Naive Bayes Stacking model Yes WHO
[47], 2013 Predicting spread of cholera disease K-means None Yes Haiti
Android-based [131], 2013 To detect distance and signal the user Bluetooth, RSS Wireless positioning and GPS No Not mentioned
Radio-waves [132], 2013 To detect distance and signal the user Ultrasound A Transmitter and A detector No A hospital
ML in android based app [28], 2019 Movement of infected people KNN and Decision Tree Service Provider Yes Not mentioned
Sensor based [133], 2017 Count people in an area Maximum likelihood equation Radar sensor No Novelda, Norway
Radar-based [134], 2017 Count people in an area Posteriori algorithm None No Not mentioned
ML and Radar Sensors [135], 2020 Detect distance between people in a crowded area ANN and Kalman filters Radar sensor and a camera Yes Not mentioned
Sensor based [136], 2012 Detect human movements indoor Improved heading estimation model Smartphone sensors No iPhone 4s
ML and IoT [35], 2014 Detect user’s location ANN and Radial functions FT-6200 kit, Zig bee Yes Third floor, Chung Hua university
ML and UAV [137], 2020 Predict traffic level Recurrent Neural networks and Convolutional networks UAV Yes Not mentioned
ML [22], 2016 Detect user’s location Deep Belief Networks(DBN) and Naive Bayes’ None Yes Gowalla network and Brightkite network
[138], 2019 Verify user’s location ANN and SVM Wireless networks Yes Momentum project, Germany
[32], 2020 Predict number of infected people Random Forest and Gradient Boosting Microphone and Thermal Cameras Yes Microsoft COCO dataset
[139], 2020 DNN and Gaussian process None Yes Indoor shopping mall
ML and 5G cellular networks [39], 2018 Predict number of people in an area RNN and DNN Simpy simulator Yes Big data challenge, Italia
[140], 2019 LSTM Neural Network None Yes Geolife project
[29], 2018 Bayesian regressor, Random Forest regressor and Gaussian regressor None Yes San Francisco
[38], 2020 DNN and CNN GPRS Yes A mobile network data, Youtube, Snapchat and Facebook