Internet of Things for Current COVID-19 and Future Pandemics: An Exploratory Study Mohammad Nasajpour∗, Seyedamin Pouriyeh∗, Reza M. Pariziy, Mohsen Dorodchiz, Maria Valero∗, Hamid R. Arabniax ∗ Department of Information Technology, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA, USA
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[email protected] Abstract—In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has In recent years, IoT has drawn convincing research ground drawn convincing research ground as a new research topic in a as a new research topic in a wide variety of academic and wide variety of academic and industrial disciplines, especially in industrial disciplines, especially in healthcare. The IoT revo- healthcare. The IoT revolution is reshaping modern healthcare systems by incorporating technological, economic, and social lution is reshaping modern healthcare systems, incorporating prospects. It is evolving healthcare systems from conventional to technological, economic, and social prospects. It is evolving more personalized healthcare systems through which patients can healthcare systems from conventional to more personalized be diagnosed, treated, and monitored more easily. The current healthcare systems through which patients can be diagnosed, global challenge of the pandemic caused by the novel severe con- treated, and monitored more easily. tagious respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 presents the greatest global public health crisis since the pandemic influenza outbreak IoT is increasingly becoming a vital technology in health- of 1918.