An Exploratory Study on Internet of Things for Covid-19 Pandemic

ABSTRACT

Internet of Things (IoT) has gained popularity since last recent years and applied in wide variety of applications including education, homes, offices and healthcare industry. IoT field changing the healthcare system by considering factors like economy, technology and social by which patients can be diagnose, treat or monitored in effective way. The world is facing current global challenge which can severe the respiratory syndrome Covid-19 which leads to serious health issues and even huge mortality. There are more than 31 cr. of people around the world suffering from Covid-19 with more than 5 cr. of mortality, when this paper was written. Since the pandemic started, several researchers put their efforts to use technologies to save world from effects of this virus. IoT plays a major role during this pandemic. IoT-enabled devices or applications helps to reduce the chances of virus spread of Covid-19 by early diagnose, monitoring of patients during active or recovery phase. This paper discusses the role of IoT during Covid-19 and how IoT implementation in healthcare helps in the phases of diagnosis, isolation and recovery. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.