Role of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) to Combat Pandemic COVID-19

Abstract

COVID-19 is caused by virus called SARS-CoV-2, which was declared by the WHO as global pandemic. Since the outbreak, there has been a rush to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) for diagnosing, predicting, and treating infections. At present, individual technologies, AI and IoT, play important roles yet do not impact individually against the pandemic because of constraints like lack of historical data and the existence of biased, noisy, and outlier data. To overcome, balance among data privacy, public health, and human-AI-IoT interaction is must. Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) appears to be a more efficient technological solution that can play a significant role to control COVID-19. IoT devices produce huge data which are gathered and mined for actionable effects in AI. AI converts data into useful results which are utilized by IoT devices. AIoT entails AI through machine learning and decision making to IoT and renovates IoT to add data exchange and analytics to AI. In this chapter, AIoT will serve as a potential analytical tool to fight against the pandemic.