How Internet of Things Respond to Pandemic: Chinese Secret

Have you ever heard the phrase Internet of Things or IoT in short? Let me enlighten you about the Iot and how it plays a crucial role on how medical providers and hospitals fight the COVID-19 pandemic. You will be surprised until the end.

The groundbreaking news of the decade has been heard throughout the entire world. It shook the world and turned it upside-down due to a virus. This virus is Novel Severe Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 or in short COVID-19. The virus spread out through most of the countries and our lives has been severely damaged. As the virus became known from the extensive research of scientists and medical researchers we made a counter-attack.

One of the best response of the professionals are the used of Internet of Things (IoT). IoT is the centered technology via internet which makes our lives more easier. We cannot deny the fact the existence of IoT played a crucial role in responding and fighting COVID-19 pandemic. Meaning, the harmonic balance of technology helps to improved the medical field and its underlings.

There are three known phases of COVID-19 response. They are early diagnosis, quarantine time and after recovery. From these phases, many procedures, tools, equipment, and man power are needed and used. The early diagnosis is about the taking the patients vitals and is subjected for various tests. In the early visitation of COVID-19 back then, doctors haven’t had an enough data and information on how to respond correctly. Since patients are coming by and increasing in such a huge number, they have no time to prepare and examine everyone.

There are symptomatic, asymptomatic and pre-asymptomatic. Since not everyone are capable of going to hospital to checkup due to financial insufficiency and fear. Telemedicine have been made possible and developed later on. Meaning, from various laboratories available in every city can connect to hospital, medical practices, and other health facilities with remote patients. They can transmit data faster and can give an appropriate medication.

Secondly, after the patient has been diagnosed and was assigned for its appropriate category based on how bad the condition is. It is time for quarantine time. IoT allows the monitoring system to be more accurate in its real-time result. Patient can used tracking wearable band to make sure that his/her is on check. In addition, during quarantine period disinfection is what matters too. There are disinfecting devices that allows to kill the virus in the air such as EcoloxTech that cleans the air we inhale.

Third, the last phase would be after recovery. The time you get your result as negative from virus, it is time for you to go home and bond with your family. However, you have to be very careful for instances like to transmit and get the virus again from others. Your body is still vulnerable and can be diagnosed for the second time.

Unlike the previous decades of known viruses, COVID-19 is more deadly and has variants as well. It evolved to various variants such as alpha, beta, gamma and delta. Among these variants, delta can spread faster than other variants. Thankfully, we can trace possible COVID-19 infected people via contract tracing. Contract tracing has been hard in the early days but became easy as smart contract tracing applications are developed. We know how much important it is to locate the people who have been possibly infected to contain and minimize the spread of the virus in the community. The emerging responses of patients, healthcare providers and authorities are highly recommended. It is no longer about yourself, but your family as well.

We cannot allow any damages and infections to our family members as we know the hardship and battle during quarantine time. As what I have said earlier, tele medicine plays a crucial role in pandemic response. The tele medicine equipment’s are more reliable and examine the patient outcomes accurately. Thus, it has the power of real-time remote monitoring system which allows the computer to show the exact health condition of one’s patient. To sum it up, internet of things provided us an equitable and reliable technology that gave humans to project the health condition faster and properly.

How Chinese fought the COVID-19 faster than any country?

Chinese scientists and developers developed the Internet of Things robot or IoT Robot. What this robot does? These robots are the one who disinfect the entire hospital particularly to places where the COVID-19 patients are quarantined. Unlike in other countries like Philippines, humans are the one who disinfect quarantine rooms which is very risky and to those unfortunate ones. They get the virus. In addition, these robots are the one who are delivering the medicines and look for patients temperature. See? In that way, doctors and nurses are not prone to virus. They can get data via robots that's why only few doctors in China got the virus unlike in the Philippines that many has diagnosed and some died.

The sooner the patient is diagnosed, the better the spread of the virus can be controlled.

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