Lightweight Security Framework for IoT Enabled Tracking of COVID-19 and its Variants

ABSTRACT

COVID-19 became the headlines of every nation because of its unrivalled transmission speed and outbreaks in humans, but its new variants are raising new challenges after every few months iteratively. Keeping track of travel history and maintaining a record of people coming in contact with any COVID affected individual has become a prime concern to control the spread of this pandemic disease. The existing tracking system lags in fetching records of people who came in contact with the affected one and maintaining travel history across the local boundaries of the cities. In this position paper, we are proposing a framework for an IoT driven blockchain (BC) based secured tracking system that gathers users' travel and meeting history, and it may help with remote health monitoring. The data gathered for the same is treated as immutable and achieves interoperability with the help of Smart Contracts (SC). It could be proved as a useful framework for post COVID-19 economic revival with the help of an IoT driven blockchain based secured model for remote health monitoring & chain tracking. © 2021 IEEE.