Enabling Healthcare 4.0 for Pandemics

13Prevalence of Internet of Things in Pandemic

Rishita Khurana^* and Madhulika Bhatia^†

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Noida, India

Abstract

The current COVID-19 pandemic has created several problems now-a-days.

All these problems point to the inability to examine and scale the situation according to the intensity of the outbreak. Along with creating problems, this pandemic has exceeded many boundaries such as the provincial, radical, conceptual, spiritual, social, and educational. It has changed the fundamental nature of our society.

For controlling such a pandemic situation, a collection, analysis, elucidation of data on regular basis regarding the spreading disease trends should be done in order to predict the outbreak of major health related symptoms. A proper surveillance is required to cure any type of disease.

Surveillance-collection of data can be performed best with the assistance of technology like Internet of things.

As “Internet of things is an idea which comprises of interconnected frameworks which has the ability of finding data about a specific thing with the assistance of extraordinary identifiers and detecting capability.”

The technological platform of IoT connected with the healthcare system is helpful in observing the infected people. This monitoring is done by the interconnected network offered by IoT [1].

Implementation of such a technology will help to decrease the healthcare expenses and enhance ...