A Scalable Architecture for Rapid Development of Trackers amid Pandemics like COVID-19

Pandemics in history caused enormous negative impacts on health, economy, social and lives across the globe. There have been many such recorded medical outbreaks including Spanish Flu, SARS, Ebola, Zika, and recently reported COVID 19. Any such pandemics are stretching far beyond the spread of the disease now. Researchers claimed that most of the reported live loss cases are due to a lack of medical facilities available in the region. While officials and health care officers promise to deliver timely medical services but still there exists a gap in cascading the information from servicemen to commoners. This generates the requirement of a new development delivery model that is rapid, efficient, and cost-effective. In this paper, we are proposing an architecture based on the client-server model that can handle the dynamic volume, velocity, and variety of information amid such a crisis. This architecture can be used for showcasing history data as well as to provide real-time information about the health care facility including hospitals, pathology labs, medical equipment's, facilities with user-driven route locator system for reaching out best possible medical care units within a stipulated time limit. To showcase the effectiveness of the proposed architecture, a prototype tracker has been developed and deployed for COVID-19 with functionalities like available required medical facilities. This can be drilled down by the user across the country, state, city, region, location.