IoT & Pandemic
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- Wed-04-Nov-2020
Covid-19 has become a global pandemic. This has paved way for the potential development of new smart and powerful devices for monitoring of individual’s health. Health experts are making use of technology in order to substantially improve healthcare in clinical settings and out of them. Role of IoT in Healthcare Sector IoT technology could be leveraged in the context of healthcare ecosystems for activities such as remote monitoring of patient health, administering medicines, preventing failure of critical equipments, disease prediction, diagnosis as well as sharing the results with remote assistance. Any IoT based remote health monitoring solution would help streamline the services and prevent people from unnecessary visits to healthcare spaces. Nowadays, “medical robots” are used in COVID-19 detection centers, to measure the temperature of patients, to deliver medicines to those in isolation, and even to disinfect rooms. IoT based screening systems will also be helpful in detecting potentially infected individuals, to allow workers to return to their workplaces, to reopen public spaces, buildings, shops and any other facilities in a safe manner. Nowadays, no-touch delivery, physical distancing,and work from home (WFH) workforce are the new norms that are being followed in most of the organizations around the world. During these pandemic times even educational institutions are impacted and are considering integration of online classrooms and distance learning. This pandemic has provided various opportunities to learn from a plethora of social innovations and experiments, ranging from working from home to large-scale surveillance. This special issue aims to provide an overview on ongoing research trends, innovative approaches for various IoT application areas for COVID-19, challenges that may include infrastructures, immunity enhancement, disease prediction, healthcare, social gatherings, way of living in safe society, use of buildings in safer way etc. IoT is an application-specific, low power, effective, and easy to use solution for any real-time problems. Sensors are the input providers in the physical world, which is transferred over a network, and actuators allow things to act or react according to the input received from sensors. S.No. Sensor/Device Application 1. Infrared Thermometer Thermal imaging/Body temperature measurement 2. IR Sensor Door and windows operation, lift operation, power switch operation, water supply control in the toilet 3. Smart-band Heart rate detection,Oximeter,etc. 4. Optical Camera Face recognition of patients 5. IP Camera For virtual conference/meeting/news broadcasting Smarter IoT Endpoints Enabled by Artificial Intelligence at the Farthest Edge There are many reasons why ML processing is moving to the edge. The first is the simplest to accept: the edge is where the data is created. There are other more critical reasons though; most notably because data consumes resources both in terms of bandwidth to move and instruction cycles to process. If all of the data being generated across the IoT were to be processed by servers, it would involve huge volumes of network traffic and an exponential increase in server power. It’s exactly why the likes of Google are slimming down some of their algorithms – so they can run independently of the cloud, on edge AI-powered devices. We are here helping some of our customers with solutions related to the below topics with our master class engineering skills in: Design/Hardware/Software/Testing/Mechanical/UI/UX/Aesthetics/Certification/etc. • Remote collaborations via IOT • IoT-enabled sensors and devices to offer a holistic view of processes • Remote health monitoring/Tele-health • Social, cultural and commercial activity using IoT technology during COVID • Remote education via IoT during COVID • Use of IoT models and protocols • IoT based control systems to control equipment • Videoconferencing for effective and real-time collaboration • Workforce IoT based tracking to ensure employee well-being and monitor activities • Cloud Interactions for IoT based safety measures • IoT based classroom teaching and seats allotments • IoT based workplace technologies (e.g., virtual (co)working, digital collaboration, productivity-related workplace tools, etc.) -NIMESH KANOTH