Design of a Robotic Humanoid for Surveillance Application

The evolution of robotics and their control systems have made the placement of arms, their motion, grasping of objects, as well as exploring their immediate environments a very important area of research. The electronic design and implementation of the humanoid which involves the keypad and graphical user interface (GUI) to track the movement of the humanoid robot as well as control the humanoid robot in performing the tasks of avoidance of obstacles and picking of objects is achieved. The system is made of two units: the remote controller unit and the humanoid control unit. The remote controller unit is of two types namely; the keypad and the GUI. The keypad uses the buttons to control or direct the humanoid while the GUI does the control using PC. The GUI has the additional function of viewing the picture taken by the humanoid, if the arrangement of an obstacle is not included among the sixteen obstacle avoidance algorithms considered. The humanoid control unit makes the humanoid walk and avoid obstacles autonomously. The simulation of robotic humanoid and hardware results also show that the hardware implementation can be embedded into the humanoid frame for surveillance applications

Nontargets: Understanding the Apathy Towards the Israeli Security Agency’s COVID-19 Surveillance

This article tackles one of the latest—but nonetheless baffling—displays of public apathy towards surveillance: that of much of the Israeli public towards the decision to recruit the Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) to do COVID-19 contact tracing during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The case of a secretive state agency being authorized to do surveillance on its citizens for a strictly non-security-related matter seems to realize many of the dangers that surveillance/privacy scholars warn about with regards to surveillance expansion, function creep, and the creation of a surveillance state. I contribute to existing literature about apathy towards surveillance and the privacy paradox by offering the term “nontargets” as an explanation. This term suggests that, alongside social groups that are likely to be targeted by a given surveillance application, there are certain recognizable nontargets that most likely will not bear the brunt of the surveillance, at least not in the short- and medium-term, and thus do not fear it. In the case at hand, which is examined using a qualitative context-bound study, I suggest that Jewish-Israelis are such a nontarget group with regards to this novel Shin Bet surveillance, which explains a significant part of their apathy towards it.

EARLY DETECTION AND SELF MONITORING OF COVID-19 STATUS THROUGH ELECTRONIC BASED SURVEILLANCE IN KENJERAN SUB-DISTRICT, BULAK DISTRICT, SURABAYA

Introduction: Data from the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia shows that confirmed Covid-19 cases in Indonesia as of November 29, 2020, have reached 534,266 cases with 16,815 deaths. This figure is an increase compared to the previous report. The implementation of surveillance needs to be supported by information technology to speed up the process of recording, reporting, and analyzing data. The socialization of Covid-19 surveillance among residents of Kenjeran sub-district, Bulak district, Surabaya city has a significant impact on increasing participants' knowledge about Covid-19 surveillance.Methods: The method used in this activity was the socialization and training of the Covid-19 surveillance application for the community. The assessment was carried out to determine the acceptance of the Covid-19 surveillance application information technology through in-depth interviews with a number of training participants via telephone a few days after the training. The assessment is carried out by asking 10 questions consisting of conditions that facilitate, application function, ease of use of the application, and desire to use the application.Results: The results of testing the application of the Covid-19 surveillance application in the community showed that this application was able to perform its function as data input and produce information about the status of Covid-19 and its recommendations quickly.Conclusion: The results of testing the application of the Covid-19 surveillance application in the community indicate that this application is able to perform its function as data input and produce information about the status of Covid-19 and its recommendations quickly. There were obstacles when registering participants, but participants had the desire to continue to use the Covid-19 surveillance application because it was very helpful in determining the status of Covid-19 quickly and accurately.