Internet of Things and Covid-19 Safety Precautions: Roles of Information Communication Technology in Health Emergency Control for Global Development

Abdullahi, H. I.; Odeniyi, A. L.; Ganiyu, S. T.

Internet of Things (IoT) as a modern tool which works as a global entity by interconnecting object especially in the health sector is also susceptible to various challenges. With the advent of IoTs, the safety precautions against COVID-19 could be enforced and monitored to minimize the global effects of the pandemic because health is wealth. Security and reliability are great issues during corona virus, COVID-19;there are established cases of poor compliance with the safety precautions which consequently increases the mortality rate of patients during emergency. Hence, this chapter addresses IoTs and COVID-19 safety precautions. This chapter adopts both quantitative and qualitative research methods, data were sourced secondarily through the content analysis of peered review journals, edited books and credible online resources. Findings showed that IoTs enhance safety precaution of COVID-19 pandemic. The study will be useful to individuals, organizations, non-governmental institutions, corporate bodies and scholars in the fields of computer sciences and criminology, security studies and health sciences. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.