IoT meets COVID-19: Status, Challenges, and Opportunities

TL;DR

This paper reviews how IoT technology is being used to combat COVID-19, discussing current applications, challenges faced, and future opportunities for deployment to enhance pandemic response efforts.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of IoT applications in COVID-19, highlighting challenges and proposing opportunities for improved deployment and effectiveness.

Findings

IoT applications are actively used in pandemic management.

Deployment challenges include network reliability and data privacy.

Opportunities exist for enhanced IoT integration in health monitoring.

Abstract

Due to the global pandemic of COVID-19, there is an urgent need to utilize existing technologies to their full potential. Internet of Things (IoT) is regarded as one of the most trending technologies with a great potential in fighting against the coronavirus outbreak. The IoT comprises of a scarce network in which the IoT devices sense the environment and send useful data on the Internet. In this paper, we examine the current status of IoT applications related to COVID-19, identify their deployment and operational challenges, and suggest possible opportunities to further contain the pandemic. Furthermore, we perform analysis for implementing IoT in which internal and external factors are discussed.