International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE)

ISSN: 2277-3878 (Online), Volume-10 Issue-2, July 2021

Connecting Through Zoom in COVID-19

Pandemic
Kamini Sharma, Anurag Sharma

Abstract: In the Covid-19 pandemic where every working person Zoom is a video communications platform with many
is working from home to stay safe and to maintain social other features like online video conferences single or in a
distancing. In mild of the corona virus crisis, the group, Ability to record meeting, chat in meeting, waiting
videoconferencing app has emerged as the usual for connecting rooms, Virtual backgrounds, mute or unmute, with video or
with others face-to-face actually in each commercial enterprise
and private settings. In Covid19 pandemic the main trouble got
without video etc. Zoom is well matched with every OS. It
here out turned into a way to live related with every other. is stated for its easy interface and easy to use, irrespective of
Connectivity turned into the main trouble for anyone like in technological expertise. On this platform we can do free
schools, colleges, universities, private sector, Government sector, video calls with 100 participants and for 40 minutes but if
spiritual sector, not unusual place human beings and plenty of need to add more than 100 participants we must take zoom
more. Every task that become occurring physically among human subscription which costs $15-20 per month. Zoom is now
beings went on-line via video conferencing apps Because within the video communique platform of choice for governments,
side the pandemic of COVID-19 no individual favored to have an companies' startups, and normal humans looking to chat, or
impact on their jobs or employment, studies, business, personal party with their friends and family.
relationship, and lots of various relationships. In mild of the
corona virus crisis, the videoconferencing app has emerged as
Zoom has some limitations on which this research is
the usual for connecting with others face-to-face actually in each done like security, connectivity, has to update screen sharing
commercial enterprise and private settings. There are many and many more.
videos conferencing gear to be had like Google meet, skype,
slack, join.me, GoToMeeting, Cisco WebEx, etc. Even in case, II. REVIEW OF LITERATURE
you do not work from home, you have heard of Zoom. Zoom
has emerged as incredibly famous amongst all on this COVID-19 In the last few years, researchers on Zoom a video
pandemic. Let us have a few mild at the Zoom video conferencing conferencing application have developed various practical
app. methods.
Keywords: Zoom, Corona virus, COVID-19, Video Ajay Chawla et al. (2020): Advances in communication
Conferencing application, Google meet , skype, slack, join.me, technologies have opened new avenues for qualitative
GoToMeeting, Cisco WebEx. research. Zoom, an innovative videoconferencing platform,
is one of them, and it offers several unique features that
I. INTRODUCTION make it appealing to qualitative and mixed-methods
researchers. As people around the world have acclimated to
As technology progresses, humans in many areas are life at work, Zoom has become synonymous with office
overpowered. There are various considerations where meetings and socializing [2].
technology is employed for environmental analysis rather Nir Kshetri et al. (2020): In conclusion, COVID19 has
than human analysis. a variety of consequences on big tech that cannot be grouped
There are many Video Conferencing applications used into a single category. The epidemic has resulted in a
for studies by student, work by companies, Business person, significant reduction in discretionary spending, which has
doctors etc. The most popular application that is being had a significant impact on businesses such as Twitter and
known by everyone who is working or non-working is Facebook. Firms with a wider range of products and
“zoom”. Zoom is a cloud based advance and innovative services have a better cushion against losses. Firms that
videoconferencing platform with unique features that we're able to expand their offerings to satisfy the needs of
intensify the quality of future qualitative and mixed methods their customers. [3]
researchers.
Mandy M. Archibald, Rachel C. Ambagstsheer,
Mavourneen G. Casey, Michael Lawless et al. (2019):
With advance technology of zoom many studies and
Manuscript received on July 20, 2021. researches are taking place. Many schools' colleges and
Revised Manuscript received on July 27, 2021. university are using zoom. Zoom is very useful in
Manuscript published on 30 July, 2021. conducting interviews these days. According to the research
* Correspondence Author on nurses
Kamini Sharma*, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow (U.P.), India. Email: Interview some said zoom good, some said very good
[email protected] and some of them got it poor. We requested sixteen exercise
Anurag Sharma, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, nurses who participated in on-line qualitative interviews
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow (U.P.), India. Email: their reviews of the use of Zoom and simultaneously
[email protected]
recorded researcher observations.
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Although numerous individuals skilled technical ZoomTogether (https://blog.zoom.us) 2020: Celebrate

difficulties, maximum defined their interview enjoy as fine the Holidays with Unlimited Meetings from Zoom. COVID-
and normally rated Zoom above opportunity interviewing 19 has modified how we live, work, and have a good time in
mediums along with face-to-face, telephone, and different 2020, and prefer the entirety else this year, the vacation
videoconferencing services, platforms, and products. season doesn’t appearance the same. As a token of
Findings advocate the viability of Zoom as a device for appreciation to our customers for the duration of a
series of qualitative records due to its relative ease of use, tremendous time, we’re casting off the 40-minute restrict on
cost-effectiveness; records control functions, and protection unfastened Zoom money owed for all conferences globally
options. Future study is going on Zoom to make this more for numerous upcoming unique occasions [10].
accurate. Covid Impact on Meeting Apps like Google Meet,
Wen-Chen Hu, Benu Bansal, and Naima Kaabouch Zoom, Microsoft Teams Never Had It Better (By
(2020): People used bodily conferences and gatherings to CNBCTV18.com |May 31, 2021, 08:15 PM IST
collaborate with others in the past. However, this bodily (Published)): As earn a living from home have become the
collaboration now no longer works during a pandemic due norm withinside the wake of the COVID-19 outbreaks final
to the fact human beings are required to maintain social year, on-line meetings, administrative or otherwise, have
distance, live far from the crowd or even paintings or become routine. Nobody ought to have imagined that
examine at home. A new manner of collaboration the usage pleasant chats the use of virtual equipment might grow to be
of cellular and Wi-Fi computing, like Zoom, Slack, and sober boardroom meetings or on-line lessons with the assist
Teams, has commenced to flourish. Mobile and wi-fi of video assembly apps like Zoom, Microsoft Teams and
computing does facilitate digital collaboration without Google Meet[11].
doubt, however it additionally brings contemporary issues
like safety and privateness problems, which do now no • PROPOSED WORK
longer occur regularly during bodily conferences or
gatherings. Steady and privateness-preserved far off III. PROBLEMS IDENTIFICATION
surroundings is critical for the exclusive facts shared over
the digital systems due to the fact the cloud-primarily based In this work, we analyze the basic problem of scene
totally gear have the risk of unauthorized get entry to and classification about scene classification for indoor-outdoor.
statistics jeopardizing. This article discusses diverse In previous work, they have used AlexNet DCNN for the
problems associated with the usage of cellular and wi-fi scene classification of indoor-outdoor. The depth of this
computing to facilitate digital collaboration during a model is much smaller and thus it is hard to learn from the
pandemic, and the way and what technology are used to collection of images. More time is required to produce better
keep person privateness while collaborating digital results. AlexNet stacks fewer layers and maximum size
collaboration and make cellular and Wi-Fi computing filters. To deal with such an issue we have used VGG16
steadier [5]. deep CNN model scene understanding and classification that
Gergely Buday (2020): Hopefully the pandemic can be intends to understand the activations from images of various
over a while from now. Still, videoconferencing can be a public scene environments with the help of CNN.
legitimate option, even for college kids. Yes, we're privy to
its drawbacks however it has benefits as well. This summer IV. PROPOSED METHODOLOGY
time season we can be able to observe a great deal greater In the work of Research we have found many limitations
meetings than our price range could in any other case allow of Zoom .we are considering those limitations and
[6]. developing one video conferencing application with advance
Weizhi Menga, Yu Wang, Duncan S.Wong, Sheng features. So, to dispose of that hassle in video conferencing
Wen, Yang Xiang (2018): Modern cellular gadgets in software, I am going to increase an up-to-date model of
particular Smartphone’s have unexpectedly developed and video conferencing software named “Glancelot”. Glancelot
are extensively followed through human beings of various Meetings are easy, reliable, and consistent, imparting HD
ages. Smartphone’s can help customers in a lot of activities, video, audio, and content material fabric sharing during the
i.e., from social networking to on-line shopping, however whole lot from your Mobil Euler and laptop devices to
additionally have end up an appealing goal for cyber- telephones and conference room systems. Glancelot is an
criminals because of the saved private statistics and touchy application that lets in clients to make unfastened video calls
information [7]. with someone or corporation of people. They look at with
Ajaay Published on October 21, 2020: Zoom Limit: video calls as “conferences.” Glancelot is video
Maximum Participants, Call Duration, and More. When the conferencing software which offers with the hassle of zoom
usage of a unfastened plan on Zoom, you could behavior clients going through at some point of their calls or
conferences with as much as a hundred members according conferences. Like, Glancelot has the choice of remaindering
to meeting. However, paid customers may be capable of the purchaser on which date and time Glancelot might be
create large conferences with extra members. The maximum close or its server might be down.
quantity of members may be invited whilst a bunch has
subscribed to a Zoom Enterprise plan and this plan lets in as
a lot as one thousand members according to meeting [8].
Zoom Meeting Timeouts, Limitations, Restrictions
(informationtechnology.seinahieghts.edu): Total
participant should not be more than 100 for free, timeout
sessions are of 40 minutes.[9]

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• An electronic mail might be furnished to all customers VI. CONCLUSION

so, all of them should turn their scheduled conferences
The conclusion from this research I got is there are many
to a few different modes or should reschedule the
videos conferencing applications word wide. In this
conferences or conferences. Glancelot has the choice
COVID-19 pandemic we all have used different types of
of popup or a notification earlier than your assembly
video conferencing application for our work. The most
goes to begin. Through which person couldn't overlook
popular video conferencing app is “zoom” and is known by
his/her scheduled conferences, classes, or conferences.
everyone even who is working or non-working. But there
Sometimes all of us get so busy with different
were some limitations in zoom that we have tried to solve in
paintings that we overlook our scheduled conferences
our project named Glancelot. Glancelot is reliable, easy to
this sort of popups or notifications will assist them to
use and free of cost video conferencing application.
preserve in remember.
• Glancelot offers customers multiple host choice
FUTURE SCOPE
through which if one host is busy every other can begin
the assembly and the primary you may be part of the Video conferencing has become a
crew after you have free. By this, the assembly does protracted manner from the early days of telepresence suites
now no longer ought to reschedule. and nascent computing device offerings.
• More than a hundred customers can join at one time in Now customers could make video calls from anywhere - the
a single assembly free of charge while in zoom its road, a boardroom, or an advert hoc huddle space. But
miles restrained to a hundred customers free of charge. the destiny of video conferencing guarantees greater than
• Glancelot offers a choice of display sharing at the reliable, extremely good calls. Video Conferencing
same time as person sharing their display; they also can applications are becoming demand of every enterprise these
percentage their face. So, the competition birthday days. As India is trying to move in virtual world to maintain
celebration can see your facial expressions together social distancing, Video Conferencing is becoming a part of
along with your display and effortlessly recognize what it. Now human can do video calls, chats from anywhere to
the person desires to explain. anywhere in this world. Video conferencing guarantees us to
• So, the selection of selecting the high-quality and give safe and secure communication. While video
handy software is taken from the studies and diverse conferencing apps are easy to use but in the backend they
assessments. This sort of software may be used for are using many new techniques like cloud computing and
video conferencing for non-public use, informal and Artificial Intelligence. We have used java jdk8, spring,
formal conferences, workshops, lectures, and faculty HTML, CSS, etc. There are many technologies used behind
classes, etc. it which is not known by the user. Video Conferencing
applications are trying to make them more secure.
V. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION From COVID-19 situation we came to know that our
work can be done from home, students can learn at home,
This work has implemented using java programming meetings can be attended at home. From home we can
language. Project Backend technology: Spring Boot connect with each other safely and easily. Future scope of
Framework. Project Development Language: Java (jdk 8). video conferencing application is very bright. In glancelot
Database Integrated: MySQL 8.0 Data base Connectivity we will try to make it more connectable it less speed of data,
Technology: Spring Data JPA. Video Conferencing server / we will try to provide more enhancing feature for free by
Interface Server: JITSI API. Front End Technology: which everyone could easily use it.
HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT.
This research is based on java programming language. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Java version jdk8 is used for developing this application.
Glancelot has similar features as zoom with some additional I am thankful to Dr. Anurag Sharma, HOD, Faculty of
features. The results we got comparing both applications Engineering and Technology, Agra College, Dr. APJ Abdul
were as given below: Kalam Technical University and Dr. R K Sharma, Associate
Professor at FET Agra College, Agra for their motivation
Table 3: Results and support in this research.
Features Zoom Glancelot
Number 100 More than 100 REFERENCES
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AUTHORS PROFILE
Kamini Sharma, is currently persuing M.Tech in
Computer Science and Engineering from Faculty Of
Engineering and Technology, Agra College, Agra,
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University,
Lucknow, India. She completed her B.Tech in 2019
in Computer Science and Engineering from Faculty
Of Engineering and Technology, Agra College,
Agra, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University,
India. Her major research is in the field of Video Conferencing
Application.Her technical skills are java, spring, CSS, Sql, Oracle 11g etc.

Dr. Anurag Sharma, Completed his M.Tech degree

in Computer Science & Engineering from Dr BR
Ambedkar University, Agra and PhD from
Bhagwant University, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
Presently working as Head of Computer Science &
Engineering Department Agra College, Agra and
also holding many administrative posts. Research
area in the field of Wireless networking, Ad-hoc networks, Machine
Learning Database etc.. Total publications are around 20 papers in
different national/international journals & conferences. He attended Short
term courses at IIT Guwahati and Workshops, Faculty development
programs organized by different universities and colleges also the Life
member of IEI and many other societies.

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