Internet of Things (IoT) Enable Designs for Identify and Control the COVID-19 Pandemic

Herath, H. M. K. K. M. B.

Coronavirus disease 19 or also known as COVID-19 is a highly transmittable and pathogenic viral infection triggered by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndromes Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which originated across the world from Wuhan, China. The current global COVID-19 pandemic challenge has crossed the limits of national, progressive, philosophical, cultural, financial, and pedagogy. The healthcare system enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT) is useful for the proper monitoring of COVID-19 patients by using an interconnected system. Hospital admission rates are growing as a result of COVID-19, and patients interact with healthier people within hospitals causing immense problems. Once COVID-19 has been identified, there is a high need for health precautions to prevent spread within hospitals. This chapter topic aims to investigate, design an IoT-based system to detect and control the COVID-19 pandemic inside the hospital environment. The proposed design has composed of the detection of COVID-19 patients with thermal images, IoT solution for social distancing, and Chatbot for the COVID-19 consultant which is functions as a single IoT solution in the hospital environment. We were aimed to highlight the IoT enabled wearable technologies with promising outcomes and the potential to identify COVID-19 cases to eliminate the spread by alerting the government authority. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.