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Year 2020 has been facing a global health crisis because of Coronavirus Disease 2019 generally referred to as COVID-19. Healthcare companies, medical practitioners and researchers are trying to combat it constantly but technology also plays an important role in fighting against corona. Few of the technologies are named as Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, 5G and Block chain. IoT enabled healthcare services; social contact tracing, use of wearable (bands, Helmet, etc.), real-time monitoring and tracing of COVID-19 patients, isolated and quarantined people are helpful for breaking the infection chain. Therefore, IoT plays a significant role in diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of the pandemic. In this paper various ways are discussed in which IoT devices and applications contribute to combat COVID-19. This study has focused on various technological attempts of IoT, proposed or applied to fight against this disease till now. This study will also provide future directions for handling any pandemic or disaster.
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Vijayvargia, K. (2021). Role and Significance of Internet of Things in Combating COVID-19: A Study. In: Sheth, A., Sinhal, A., Shrivastava, A., Pandey, A.K. (eds) Intelligent Systems. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2248-9_16
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