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Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic situation, the awareness about the importance of hand hygiene is increased among the common public. Proper care should be taken to prevent the spread of diseases especially in healthcare facilities. IoT-enabled devices play a major role in maintaining the hygiene of healthcare workers and patients.

With sensor-enabled hand sanitizing machines, monitoring of hand hygiene becomes easier. The sensor sets a threshold value of cleanliness and, if any staff fails to maintain the threshold value, will be alerted about sanitizing their hands. Even the sensors can track the time of sanitization done and alert them to sanitize their hands.

Since real-time monitoring of the hand hygiene is possible by the IoT connected devices, everyone will be more aware and alerted about the cleanliness and importance of the hygiene hands which leads to a healthy environment and helps to control the spread of viruses.