Undergraduate Grant Program- Proposal Template

1. Project Title:

Sim enabled wearable for monitoring covid-19 suspects under self-

quarantine

2. Executive Summary: (Half page, single spaced)

(Project Description) – Provide a description of your research proposal,
written in terms easy for someone outside your field. Include specific goals
you plan to accomplish.
 3. Introduction and Statement of the Problem / Project :
(Half page, single spaced)
As the spread of covig-19 is severe it is very essential to track the
people in quarantine after being suspected. As of now containing the suspect in
a region and monitoring needs more manpower
 4. Literature Review and Analysis of Related Work *
(Half page, single spaced)

A First Look at SIM-Enabled Wearables in the Wild

Harini Kolamunna, Ilias Leontiadis, Diego Perino, Suranga Seneviratne,

Kanchana Thilakarathna, and Aruna Seneviratne. 2018. A First Look at
SIM-Enabled Wearables in the Wild. In Proceedings of the Internet
Measurement Conference 2018 (IMC ’18). Association for Computing
Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 77–83.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3278532.3278540

ABSTRACT
Recent advances are driving wearables towards stand-alone devices with cellular
network support (e.g. SIM-enabled Apple Watch series-3). Nonetheless, a little has been
studied on SIM-enabled wearable traffic in ISP networks to gain customer insights and
to understand traffic characteristics. In this paper, we characterize the network traffic of
several thousand SIM-enabled wearable users in a large European mobile ISP. We
present insights on user behavior, application characteristics such as popularity and
usage, and wearable traffic patterns. We observed a 9% increase in SIM-enabled
wearable users over a five month observation period. However, only 34% of such users
actually generate any network transaction. Our analysis also indicates that SIM-enabled
wearable users are significantly more active in terms of mobility, data consumption and
frequency of app usage compared to the remaining customers of the ISP who are mostly
equipped with a smartphone. Finally, wearable apps directly communicate with third
parties such as advertisement and analytics networks similarly to smartphone apps.
5. Research Objectives: (Half page, single spaced)
Include your project’s overall objectives as well as specific goals you plan
to accomplish.

To Design a quarantine monitoring system for covid affected cases in

oman.
This monitoring helps the control the spread of outbreak.
6. Research Methodology: (Half page, single spaced)
[Describe your Implementation Plan,Time-line and Milestones]
 Clearly state how you plan to accomplish the goals listed in your
project description. Identify the specific steps necessary to perform
your research.

In this paper the idea has been suggested in two stages. First phase

consists of making a plan to decide the variables such as temperature ,

blood pressure and location of the person under quarantine. The second

stage consisting of developing an android application to interface the

wearable through cellular network. This wearable will monitor the

condition of the person and will send information to the pandemic

outbreak control. As people are travelling by air , this wearable can be

given to those who are found with initial symptoms and allowed to

enter a region for self-quarantine. This is a simpler monitoring system

that avoids complications and avoids privacy related issues to the

individual.

Block Diagram of the proposed concept:

Timeline: Provide a detailed timeline for completion of goals of your project.

Activity Target date

1 Team formation 1& 2 week of april 2020
2 Data collection 3rd and 4th week of april 2020
3 System design May 2020
4 Prototype demonstration June 2020
5 Analysis and September 2020
modification
6 Finalization of design October 2020

7. Academic, Scientific and/or Innovation Significance:

(Half page, single spaced)
Explain in general terms why the information gained from this
research project will be beneficial.
HELPS TO MONITOR AND CONTROL THE MOVEMENT OF COVID-19
SUSPECTS IN OMAN AND THUS REDUCING THE RISK OF OUTBREAK

8. Benefits to Oman:

Explain how the information gained from this research project will
be beneficial to Oman.

HELPS TO MONITOR AND CONTROL THE MOVEMENT OF COVID-19

SUSPECTS IN OMAN
 9. Bibliography:
List the sources you have consulted in preparation of this proposal, as well
as any references you have cited within this application.

1. Carlos E Andrade, Simon D Byers, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Emir Halepovic,

David J Poole, Lien K Tran, and Christopher T Volinsky. 2017. Connected cars in
cellular network: a measurement study. In Proceedings of the International SIGCOMM

Conference on Internet Measurement. ACM, 235--241. 

2. Niranjan Balasubramanian, Aruna Balasubramanian, and Arun Venkataramani.
2009. Energy consumption in mobile phones: a measurement study and implications
for network applications. In Proceedings of the International SIGCOMM Conference on

Internet Measurement. ACM, 280--293. 

3. Jagmohan Chauhan, Suranga Seneviratne, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Anirban
Mahanti, and Aruna Seneviratne. 2016. Characterization of early smartwatch apps. In
Proceedings of the International Workshops on Pervasive Computing and

Communications. IEEE.

10. Budget Categories

Expense category Required Amount Justification
(Omani Rial)
Data 50 Related articles
Collection/Analysis download, paid journals
Equipment and 200 Sim enabled smart watch
facilities , sensors
Materials and supplies 3100 Bulk requirement of wearables
with required features
Travel and 500 Travel to muscat from
consultation shinas college of
technology
Administration 150 Team formation
expenses ,Arranging meetings ,
discussuions
Total 4000 OMR

Total TRC budget per proposal to a maximum of 1500 RO.

11. Faculty Mentor Information:
Name:
University/College:
Department:
E mail and contact information:

12. Undergraduate team information :

Name:
Gender:
College/Major of study
GPA:
E mail & Contact information
Attachments (One page resume and a copy of the transcript for each UG
team member)