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COVID-19 is an acute, sometimes severe, respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus. In 2019 First discovered in Wuhan, China, the virus has spread all over the globe, where places like Europe, India are facing the second wave of COVID19 pandemic in 2021. Now that the pandemic is nowhere to be seen to take an end, efforts must be made to mitigate the spread of the Virus. Organizations like Shopping malls, schools, Banks have turned out to be places where crowd gatherings happen the most, and here the chance of being infected also increases. So, to stop the spread of the virus, we have proposed a system that provides smart surveillance in crowded areas. In the proposed model we have done Face Mask detection, temperature Monitoring along with continuous tracking of crowd density and to integrate all these modules we have used Multiple Regression Mode. For Mask detection, we have used the OpenCV library called Dlib, which accurately extracts the face feature and with specified conditions, it can be identified if a person is wearing a mask or not. For monitoring of temperature, MLX90641 is used, with a pi-cam to get the video footage, along with keeping track of people entering. All the Required Computation is done on the Raspberry Pi and according to the specified condition, the Raspberry pi signals the servo motor to close and open the entry door.

"The paper focuses on one of the aspects most investigated and monitored in recent years by the Desi index (Digital Economy and Society Index) on the digitization process in Europe, human capital, with an in-depth focus on primary school teachers. The emergent state of Covid 19 has had a strong impact in the field of education, so much so that the uses of digital technology and its applications are now an essential topic in public and political debate. The implementation of digital devices for education, during the lockdown, has necessarily led to a reflection on the methodological paths that can be applied and tested in the educational context. There are many uncertainties linked to the validity of new digital didactic approaches and to the communicative and transmissive effectiveness of the contents where the digital skills of teachers and families and the lack of adequate equipment risk compromising the objective of effective and inclusive education. How can educational quality and inclusion be guaranteed through digital communication, beyond socio-cultural inequalities? How can school digital capital guarantee new educational planning in the classroom? These are the main questions of the paper, which will focus on illustrating the communicative strategies of visual storytelling and graphicacy as tools for democratising digital communication, for sociocultural inclusion and for reducing sociocultural inequalities, by illustrating the structural framework and the main actions/strategy of the European Erasmus Plus project CAVE (Communication and Visual Education in homeschooling)."

The significant decrease in agricultural land and the rapid development of hydroponic system technology have brought a huge challenge to farmers. This paper describes the NFT-I (Nutrient Film Technique based on IoT) hydroponic system, and it is a variant of traditional NFT and Floating Root (RF) systems. The system measures several parameters, such as temperature, water level, and acidity (pH). The system collects the information using sensors connected to Arduino microcontroller and Raspberry PI to store the collected data. The results show that this system can reduce the electricity consumption by 91.6%; on the other hand, it helps farmers to increase the effectivity and efficiency on monitoring and controlling NFT-I Hydroponic Farm. Finally, in these times of confinement due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in which the economy has decreased, and the needs are multiple, this NFT-I system could help people to create their vegetable growing system quickly and cheaply.

International audience; The Robots for Learning workshop series aims at advancing the research topics related to the use of social robots in educational contexts. This year's half-day workshop follows on previous events in Human-Robot Interaction conferences focusing on efforts to discuss potential benchmarks in design, methodology and evaluation of new robotics systems that help learners. In this 6th edition of the workshop, we will be investigating in particular methods from technologies for education and online learning. Since the past few months, online and remote learning has been put in place in several countries to cope with the health and safety measures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In this workshop, we aim to discuss strategies to design robotics system able to provide embodied assistance to the remote learners and to demonstrate long-term learning effects.

In this paper we present contactless solution for automatic induction disinfection intelligent hand sanitizer. The novelty of our prototype is that contactless sensor is not sensitive to skin color. Furthermore, it is equipped with RFID tag allowing adjustment to visually impaired users. Research was set as response to COVID-19 and reflects local needs since access to the presented prototype was not possible before and during COVID-19.

Nowadays in this pandemic situation are fixed with certain limits in our lives. There are options with us but options are limited this time. In this paper there are many ways trying to cover all such possible aspects and technologies which are or yet to be revolutionized after the impact of this pandemic and also tried to highlight the IoT based Healthcare Sector in upcoming days. But in this stage, this have IoT as our option to fight with this pandemic situation very well. Social distancing is the only one solution to save ourselves from this disease. So, people start using certain networks, software, and other technologies to connect with each other. IoT helps in speeding up life even if facing any pandemic situations. IoT is not only something which is connected with or limited with machines or IT related persons only. It is something which is used everywhere these days. Like in cameras, security systems and most powerful use of this is in healthcare. It helps people make them smart and connected with each other.

We present ZoomTouch - a breakthrough technology for multi-user control of robot from Zoom in real-time by DNN-based gesture recognition. The users from digital world can have a video conferencing and manipulate the robot to make the dexterous manipulations with tangible objects. As the scenario, we proposed the remote COVID-19 test Laboratory to considerably reduce the time to receive the data and substitute medical assistant working in protective gear in close proximity with infected cells. The proposed technology suggests a new type of reality, where multi-users can jointly interact with remote object, e.g. make a new building design, joint cooking in robotic kitchen, etc, and discuss/modify the results at the same time. Accepted to the ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2020 conference (Emerging Technologies section), ACM copyright, 2 pages, 2 figures

Covid-19 pandemic had an impact on the global economy. Startups played big role in Indonesia’s economy. This study was aimed to know the startups business opportunity during pandemic. This study used online questionnaires to the startups under the coordination of the Ministry of Research and Technology. Questionnaire were processed using pivot tables and analyzed by SWOT. Data showed that 79% startups keep survive despite the pandemic conditions. This study was focus on startups in the field of health/medicine, agriculture/food security, IT, transportation, manufacture, energy. The business sustainability were 95%;86%;76%;75%;71%;43%, respectively. The increase number in turnover were 48%;16%;11%;0%;8%;0%, respectively. The increase number of labor were 29%;6%;7%;0%,4%;0%,respectively. SWOT analysis showed that the startups in the field of health/medicine, agriculture/food security, IT and manufacture have business opportunities to develop amid the pandemic. The result of this study was recommended to arrange policy design for reducing the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on startups business.

The Covid-19 pandemic crisis has made companies consider alternatives to the usual operating methods in order to ensure the continuity of their employees work and the offer of products and services to their customers. The current economic situation has therefore anchored the positioning of digital transformation as a lever for economic revival and evolution, and has reminded companies of the need to conduct this transformation in order to remain competitive. This paper is part of this debate and is in line with previous work on digital transformation frameworks. It develops the digital reflection from a strategic and above all multidimensional perspective. By adopting this vision, and starting from a global digital-oriented business strategy, it is proposed to decline it into business strategies through a digital roadmap. The article also proposes a framework of digital transformation based on these strategic guidelines and making all the dimensions that must be involved in a transformative process interact with each other.

Digital Transformation becomes an essential strategy for organisations in this new digital arena, specifically after the COVID-19 pandemic and its unprecedented effects on the whole world and the manufacturing sector. In this new digital era, consumers became more expert and more engaging in the products using new technologies. At the same time, companies began to adopt digital transformation strategies in their manufacturing processes to become more agile and give the most value to their customers in fierce competition. This paper aims to identify and model the main challenges that face the digital transformation process in the manufacturing industry.. The main challenges were categorized to four main areas: skills, adoption of new technologies, change management practices, and innovation initiatives. By identifying these challenges, in a new and incremental way, manufacturing organisations will be able to adopt digital transformation processes efficiently and effectively in a proper manner. © 2021 The authors and IOS Press.