{"id":19409,"date":"2026-06-24T04:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technetweb.com\/?p=19409"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:14:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:14:59","slug":"the-next-generation-of-iot-addressing-the-coronavirus-and-preventing-future-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/the-next-generation-of-iot-addressing-the-coronavirus-and-preventing-future-outbreaks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Generation of IoT \u2013 Addressing the Coronavirus and Preventing Future Outbreaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Coronavirus has affected everything in the world including the start-ups and their regular work activities. We can see various corporations and individuals getting directly impacted. Some of its other dramatic impacts are limitations on international travel and events and disruption in global supply chains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Since many people are going for voluntary quarantine and travel as well as events are limited, therefore communication and transactions are increasingly made online. Platforms like zoom are very busy nowadays because several offline expos are shifting to the virtual expo format and F2F meetings are not happening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Below are the various ways in which the internet of things (IoT) can assist in combating the Coronavirus:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Remote health monitoring<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Hospital room monitoring<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Sick patient tracking<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Asset and device management<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Hospital equipment tracking<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Identifying gatherings in public areas<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Various companies are trying to work more for the benefit of the customers, as much as tolerance and extra customer support go. Revenue expansion is important but in times of crisis, the health and personal safety of the customers is a priority. Conscious decisions need to be made to be more easy-going and supportive with the customers, which includes offering discount pricing to those who are struggling.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Remote Health Monitoring<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19413\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"https:\/\/technetweb.com\/the-next-generation-of-iot-addressing-the-coronavirus-and-preventing-future-outbreaks\/digital-technologies-in-healthcare\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19413 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19413\" src=\"https:\/\/technetweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Digital-Technologies-in-Healthcare.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Digital-Technologies-in-Healthcare.jpg 710w, https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Digital-Technologies-in-Healthcare-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/span> <span style=\"color: #808080;\">Source: recruitingblogs.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Companies can start services to facilitate the monitoring of patients in a hospital quarantine. The hardware can be provided which allows them to undertake a medical examination without direct contact of the staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Patients are encouraged by the health officials to use an app to connect remotely to a doctor who can check their symptoms and assist them while they\u2019re still at home. Patients in Singapore use an app called MaNaDr, to consult a doctor and report on their symptoms. The doctor checks them regularly and orders an ambulance if their condition is deteriorating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">IoT robots are used to clean, disinfect, deliver medicines, and take patients\u2019 temperatures in a field hospital in Wuhan, China to scale critical ICU nursing resources during the pandemic. Hospital administrators revealed that the robots better-scaled nursing resources for critical care and also decreased the spread of the virus to the hospital workforce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The well-known Mayo Clinic in the U.S is reported to have consulted the creators of remote monitoring tools regarding the methods to routinely monitor patients with COVID-19 who don\u2019t need intensive care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Likewise, other IoT devices are used to measure health metrics such as temperature, blood pressure, and blood sugar several times per day, and the results get stored on the cloud automatically, from which doctors get alerts in case the readings are not normal.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Hospital Sick Patient Tracking<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19415\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19415\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"https:\/\/technetweb.com\/the-next-generation-of-iot-addressing-the-coronavirus-and-preventing-future-outbreaks\/173742881-1024x681\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19415 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19415\" src=\"https:\/\/technetweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/173742881-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/173742881-1024x681-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/173742881-1024x681-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/173742881-1024x681-1-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/span> <span style=\"color: #808080;\">Source: Pbs.org<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Hospitals must be aware of how to instantly locate contagious patients during a main medical emergency or a pandemic so that the healthy patients or workforce is not infected. ID card with sensors can be provided to all patients and hospital staff members to recognize the affected patients and those who are in their vicinity, by broadcasting where these patients are positioned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Based on the distance, healthcare officials can identify the affected individuals exactly where they are and what other people are in the same zones as those who are sick. Those doctors\/staff who were within this pre-defined vicinity can be removed selectively and the entire hospital does not need to be removed when an additional infected person is identified.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Identifying Gatherings in Public Areas<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">This also holds true for recognizing when are people gathering in big numbers and where. Large gathering or individuals breaching thresholds can be detected by connecting to telco systems, and by connecting to all location data. IoT can offer some support to lessen the damage done by the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Aerial Thermography Using Drones With Thermal Cameras<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19417\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"https:\/\/technetweb.com\/the-next-generation-of-iot-addressing-the-coronavirus-and-preventing-future-outbreaks\/thermal-image-2-1024x683\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19417 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19417\" src=\"https:\/\/technetweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Thermal-Image-2-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Thermal-Image-2-1024x683-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Thermal-Image-2-1024x683-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Thermal-Image-2-1024x683-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/span> <span style=\"color: #808080;\">Source: Dronelife.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Drones with thermal camera scanners can be used to detect the temperatures of people in quarantine to stop the chain of the spread of the Corona Virus. The individuals with unusual body temperature can be identified in a crowd by the high-tech monitoring devices \u2013 a technique known as aerial thermography.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Traditional methods can be risky as well as expensive but using drones for thermography is safe as well as economical. Therefore authorities are using drones to detect the body temperature of the large crowds on the street, storing their information on the cloud and sending it to health officials so that the treatments could be started as soon as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus has affected everything in the world including the start-ups and their regular work activities. We can see various corporations and individuals getting directly impacted. Some of its other dramatic impacts are limitations on international travel and events and disruption in global supply chains. Since many people are going for voluntary quarantine and travel as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enterprise-solutions","category-seo"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/P0hdF8QV.jpeg",540,370,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/P0hdF8QV-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/P0hdF8QV-300x206.jpeg",300,206,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/P0hdF8QV.jpeg",540,370,false],"large":["https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/P0hdF8QV.jpeg",540,370,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/P0hdF8QV.jpeg",540,370,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/P0hdF8QV.jpeg",540,370,false],"gform-image-choice-sm":["https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/P0hdF8QV.jpeg",300,206,false],"gform-image-choice-md":["https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/P0hdF8QV.jpeg",400,274,false],"gform-image-choice-lg":["https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/P0hdF8QV.jpeg",540,370,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Zahoor Bhat","author_link":"https:\/\/prosglobalinc.com\/enterprise-solutions\/author\/zahoor\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Coronavirus has affected everything in the world including the start-ups and their regular work activities. 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