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Document Type

Article

Keywords

Pilgrimage Management System, Covid-19, Wearable Technology, Context-awareness, IoT Healthcare

Abstract

Hajj is an annual event placed in Saudi Arabia. It is one of the largest religious gatherings, such that it gathers millions of pilgrims from all around the world. The pandemic of Covid-19 is not over yet, and could likely be part of our life for a long time. Also, it is negatively affecting such mass gatherings. The aim of this research is to facilitate the overall hajj event while maintaining peoples’ health, safety, and security. Therefore, we use a technology that helps to reduce direct contact between pilgrims themselves as well as with other entities, such that human interaction would be at a minimum level. We propose a context-aware framework of Pilgrimage Management System (PMS) using wearable technology, such that, a four-user context-aware PMS framework is integrated wearable devices and mobile applications. The framework considers four groups of users. These include: pilgrims, convoy managers, Saudi authorities, and medical staff. Our context-aware framework fulfils users’ needs where feasible and applicable. It makes hajj rituals safe and efficient so that they become more flexible. As a result, the overall hajj event will be improved. Our proposed framework is not only designed to be used during the pandemic, but also after the pandemic. Moreover, this framework can be applied to any transmission disease that might happen in the future. Hence, the overall system is developed based context-aware model and it can be expanded to accommodate new challenges.

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