Internet of things (IoT) applications to fight against COVID-19 pandemic (original) (raw)

Application of IoT in the COVID-19 Pandemic

European Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

As we all know, the Internet has altered everything, and the Internet of Things has given us hope for a bright future of the Internet with Machine-to-Machine (M2M) connectivity. This review study demonstrated that smart systems based on the Internet of Things are feasible and economical to build (IoT). In the field of healthcare, the Internet of Things has made significant progress. This article examines how the Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionising the healthcare industry by giving huge healthcare advantages to humanity through accessible and practical healthcare solutions specially during the hard coronavirus situation around the world. The purpose of this study is to address the function of IoT in smart hospitals, as well as its importance in dealing with pandemics. Various smart gadgets that can provide a variety of features, such as adequate monitoring of high-risk patients, tracking their bio-metric measurements, and gathering real-time data, can be used to serve communi...

Internet of Things (IoT) enabled healthcare helps to take the challenges of COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research, 2021

Background/objectives: The Internet of Things (IoT) can create disruptive innovation in healthcare. Thus, during COVID-19 Pandemic, there is a need to study different applications of IoT enabled healthcare. For this, a brief study is required for research directions. Methods: Research papers on IoT in healthcare and COVID-19 Pandemic are studied to identify this technology's capabilities. This literature-based study may guide professionals in envisaging solutions to related problems and fighting against the COVID-19 type pandemic. Results: Briefly studied the significant achievements of IoT with the help of a process chart. Then identifies seven major technologies of IoT that seem helpful for healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic. Finally, the study identifies sixteen basic IoT applications for the medical field during the COVID-19 Pandemic with a brief description of them. Conclusions: In the current scenario, advanced information technologies have opened a new door to innovation in our daily lives. Out of these information technologies, the Internet of Things is an emerging technology that provides enhancement and better solutions in the medical field, like proper medical record-keeping, sampling, integration of devices, and causes of diseases. IoT's sensor-based technology provides an excellent capability to reduce the risk of surgery during complicated cases and helpful for COVID-19 type pandemic. In the medical field, IoT's focus is to help perform the treatment of different COVID-19 cases precisely. It makes the surgeon job easier by minimising risks and increasing the overall performance. By using this technology, doctors can easily detect changes in critical parameters of the COVID-19 patient. This information-based service opens up new healthcare opportunities as it moves towards the best way of an information system to adapt world-class results as it enables improvement of treatment systems in the hospital. Medical students can now be better trained for disease detection and well guided for the future course of action. IoT's proper usage can help correctly resolve different medical challenges like speed, price, and complexity. It can easily be customised to monitor calorific intake and treatment like asthma, diabetes, and arthritis of the COVID-19 patient. This digitally controlled health management system can improve the overall performance of healthcare during COVID-19 pandemic days.

Application of IoT in Current Pandemic of COVID-19

As we know that Internet, a rebellion innovation has transformed everything, Internet of Things has made a hope for excellent future of Internet with Machine-Machine (M2M) type of communication. This review paper has also shown that it is possible and affordable to construct these smart systems based on Internet of Things (IoT). IoT delivers exceptional advancement in the healthcare domain. This paper explores the roles of IoT that revolutionize the healthcare domain by providing enormous healthcare benefits to the mankind by offering affordable and practical healthcare solutions. The main focus of this paper is to discuss the role of IoT in smart hospitals and its significance to deal with pandemics is also highlighted. For serving the community-specific needs during spread of pandemic, various smart devices can be utilized that can provide varied functionalities including proper monitoring of high-risk patients, tracking their bio-metric measurements and capturing real-time data. We have also studied various blueprints which can sense unforeseen happenings using numerous sensors and reveal the facts accumulated on LED display. Observational outcomes have shown good agreement with the hypothetical statements.

Internet of Things as a Logical Way to Tackle the Emerging COVID-19 Virus

International Journal of Emerging Trends in Engineering Research, 2021

The outburst of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that has led to millions of deaths globally appears to be overwhelming. This virus has become a focus of worldwide consideration. The Internet of Things (IoT) can be well-thought-out as a practical way to forecast, monitor, and avert the emerging COVID-19 virus. Internet of Things represents a connected-network of smart objects, sensors, devices, and people over which information can be acquired and communicated via the cloud for trend and patterns analysis. This technology has gained immense research plethora in health care and industrial applications. The IoT revolution is reforming contemporary healthcare schemes through integrating high-tech, commercial, and societal views. This paper briefly examines the potential of IoT technology as a logical way to tackle COVID-19 by evolving healthcare systems from conventional to more personalized healthcare systems through which illness can be detected, treated, and supervised effortlessly.

Study of IoT-Based Digital Technology to Combat COVID-19 Pandemic

International Journal of Distributed and Cloud Computing, 2021

The epidemic of coronavirus disease which is called COVID-19 is dispersing all over the world in a few months. The traditional health care systems face new challenges associated with the constant increase of infected persons with this disease. In the current time, the integration of smart medical sensors and devices of the Internet of Things (IoT) proposed the new health care domain which is called the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). With this technology, accuracy, reliability, efficiency, and effectiveness are improved in the health domain. With the combination of cloud computing with IoT architecture, the smart healthcare system is designed which is ableto support real-time applications when Artificial Intelligence (AI) processing on a vast data which is collected by wearable sensors network. The emergence of IoMT has initiated the vital change in assisting the management of diseases, improving the diagnosis of disease, treatment methods and also reducing the cost and errors in healthcare. The implementations of this technology in the health domain not only improve the healthcare quality for patients but also help the healthcare workers. This paper studies the use of IoT solutions throughout this pandemic period in a health care system, starting from early health monitoring solutions from wearable sensors up to a final recovery from COVID-19. IoMT can play an imperative role during this pandemic time and facilitate to stop the spread of the virus, recognize the patient who has been infected with this virus and also help to control the coronavirus infection in real-time.

New ideas and framework for combating COVID-19 pandemic using IoT technologies

Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2021

The internet of things (IoT) is one of the most advanced technologies that have emerged in the last decade. In recent years, IoT has been used in many medical fields. With the emergence of the Coronavirus pandemic, some IoT technologies were employed to serve the health sector to make quick and accurate decisions to save people's lives. However, there are still many ideas and works not yet implemented that could be applied in many aspects to preserve people's lives. Therefore, it is necessary to collect works and ideas that depend on IoT to produce modern systems quickly to serve the health sector. In this paper, a review of the most recent technologies of IoT against Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been done. A comparative and analysis among the previous works have been done to reach the most efficient depending on comparing the services that each work has provided. Besides that, suggest several new ideas that can be adopted as systems use IoT technologies and the expected advantages that can be gain from applying these ideas. A framework for a proposed idea to build a comprehensive monitoring system based on IoT technologies on the patient and hospital sides and expected advantages of implementing the system has been done.

Role of Internet of Things (IOT) In Pandemic Covid-19 Condition

Covid-19 disease caused by large family Corona viruses which cause illness in human and some time in animal also. As per WHO, the spread of this virus is so enormous that in a less time it has infected more 46 lakh people and more than 3 lakh death globally. IoT embedded system has variety of application domain one of them is healthcare system. IoT includes sensing of information (Data), transmitting this information over internet and processing of sensed information for further decision. Implementation of IoT healthcare applications provide the real time monitoring of the patient and result in speedy recovery of the patient. It can be effectively used for the prevention and control of COVID-19. IoT applications are well-proven and help to tackle the pandemic COVID-19 conditions. In this study, we are discussing the impact of Covid-19 and role of Healthcare IoT applications to overcome or face this pandemic using technology elegantly.

Internet of Things for Current COVID-19 and Future Pandemics: an Exploratory Study

Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has gained convincing research ground as a new research topic in a wide variety of academic and industrial disciplines, especially in healthcare. The IoT revolution is reshaping modern healthcare systems by incorporating technological, economic, and social prospects. It is evolving healthcare systems from conventional to more personalized healthcare systems through which patients can be diagnosed, treated, and monitored more easily. The current global challenge of the pandemic caused by the novel severe respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 presents the greatest global public health crisis since the pandemic influenza outbreak of 1918. At the time this paper was written, the number of diagnosed COVID-19 cases around the world had reached more than 31 million. Since the pandemic started, there has been a rapid effort in different research communities to exploit a wide variety of technologies to combat this worldwide threat, and IoT technology is one of the pioneers in this area. In the context of COVID-19, IoT-enabled/linked devices/applications are utilized to lower the possible spread of COVID-19 to others by early diagnosis, monitoring patients, and practicing defined protocols after patient recovery. This paper surveys the role of IoT-based technologies in COVID-19 and reviews the state-of-the-art architectures, platforms, applications, and industrial IoT-based solutions combating COVID-19 in three main phases, including early diagnosis, quarantine time, and after recovery.

Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) for Covid-19 Epidemic Affected People

South Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2021

i. Purpose of the study: Due to the rapid increase of COVID-19 cases, it has become challenging for the entire world to identify and treat infected patients at existing hospitals. In order to stop the spread of COVID-19, diseased persons need to be isolated for treatment. Hence, there is an enormous necessity to identify, monitor, and isolate patients to analyze their current situation and improve diagnostic accuracy to prevent more spread and deaths. ii. Methodology: Providentially, the recent advances in Information and communications technology (ICT) like the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) bring us opportunities to win the battle against the COVID-19 crisis. The exploratory research distributes practical assistance to the researcher for the rudimentary work. In this study, the exploratory research method was executed to explore the existing literature intensively and recognize the COVID-19 affected patients’ issues or challenges. iii. Main Findings: A new approach of IoMT-base...

IJERT-IoT in the Face of COVID -19

International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), 2020

https://www.ijert.org/iot-in-the-face-of-covid-19 https://www.ijert.org/research/iot-in-the-face-of-covid-19-IJERTCONV8IS15028.pdf The present universal challenge of COVID-19 pandemic has exceeded the regional, essential, theoretical, mystical, communal, and pedagogical boundaries. The enhanced spread of COVID-19 has increased many operational problems in the governments' health response systems. All these problems point to an incapability to scale the solution with the growth of the outbreak. Presently, IoT is used to accomplish some features of the COVID-19. Drones are used for public observation to confirm quarantine and the wearing of masks. IoT can be used to trace the cause of an occurrence. Internet of Things empowered health-care system for appropriate observation of COVID-19 patients, by engaging an interconnected network. This network helps to expand patient gratification and reduce re-admissions in the hospital. IoT is useful for COVID-19 patients to determine the symptoms and gives better medication immediately. It will be very helpful to the surgeon, physician, patient, and hospital management system. IoT application is effective in reducing the cost of health-care and also could improve infected patients. In this paper, remarkable applications of IoT are recognized and analyzed. It has enforced the scientists, researchers and academicians to suggest creative solutions to vanquish or challenge this pandemic. Hence, this study explores the idea of overall applications of IoT by presenting a road-map to challenge the COVID-19 pandemic.