Study of Technology and Innovation Against the Coronavirus Pandemic
Keywords:
Coronavirus disease, Pandemic, Telemedicine, Robot, Artificial Intelligent System (AIS)Abstract
This paper presents the study of technology and innovations to fight against the coronavirus pandemic. This refers to the ways the technology and innovations can be applied to prevent the disease from spreading. According to the severe symptoms, the coronavirus disease can damage the respiratory system and cause the lung failure. And the infection from the coronavirus disease is spreading quickly across the globe. This has led to the technology which has been created, the innovation to save the patients’ lives infected with the disease. These include the Raspberry Pi-powered ventilator and the consortium of aircraft and vehicle companies with the medical company for increasing the mass production of ventilators in the limited time for treatment. Considerable efforts to reduce transmission will be required to control the pandemic, such as telemedicine, wearable IoT to monitor the early symptoms, if the health workers are infected, robot killing the disease and helping to reduce the routine work load. As stated above, a smart field hospital can be run by a platform AI-based cloud robots in order to reduce the risk of contamination. Finally, we conclude that the study of technology and innovation can be used for dealing with the re-emerging disease in the future.
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