A Comprehensive Analysis of Sustainable IoT Infrastructure in the Post-COVID-19 Era

ABSTRACT

The recent worldwide outbreak Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) had an impact on our daily lifestyle enormously. The enterprises have reconsidered their work practices to cope up with the new scenario and a severe impact has been observed in different sectors including manufacturing, shipping and distribution of products. Different Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures allowed us to obtain some better solutions throughout the decade and it also became one of the most researched areas due to the convergence with other emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, cloud computing, etc. In the pandemic era also, IoT has proved its efficiency in different online platforms like e-medicine, e-learning, online shopping, etc. On the other hand, the global trend is moving towards sustainability and hence sustainable solutions in different sectors are in high demand. Though IoT helps to reduce energy consumption in different applications, still environmental concern regarding IoT components has been raised recently since the modern electronics and IoT devices are often difficult to recycle. In this chapter, sustainability of different IoT infrastructures will be reviewed and their applicability in appropriate domains will be analysed for the post-COVID-19 era. Different challenges will be attempted to be identified for future redress satisfying the customer requirement and a possible future direction will be provided based upon the current research findings. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.