How Technology Can Help Spread Of COVID-19

Winklix LLC
4 min readJun 30, 2020

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As world is undergoing thorough touch situations due to COVID-19 pandemic , all persons are sitting at their home to prevent themselves from getting attached by COVID-19 . As a result government and people are finding a way out to use technology to find plausible solutions to help limit spread of COVID-19 . Thanks to some of the latest emerging technology that has made doable the limit of spread of COVID-19 .

Our team being the watchdog at various technology solutions around the globe which is being used to control the outbreak right from deliveries to tracking , remote working , education and more . As per WEF , 191 countries have already announced complete school lockdown since March and approximately 1.57 billion students studying in school and universities is staying at home . School and universities are moving their classes online using new technology . Technological solutions are acting as a helping hand during this pandemic times and hence there is a need to understand the benefit arising out of it .

Contact Tracing By Mobile App

Countries around the globe are trying their best to deal with the current scenario and rolling out different modules for contract tracing apps and techniques in order to stop spread of Coronavirus . In this technology , person is digitally identified who might have been exposed to Coronavirus and needs to immediately isolate themselves .

The Australian government was first to launch such contract tracking app , named COVIDsafe . App uses Bluetooth to trace interaction between users of mobile app by which data gets stored to individual’s phone , and in case of any interaction with positive coronavirus patient , users gets alerted for their exposure .

Contact tracking or we can say location tracing is very essential as it facilitates respective authorities to know the real scenario of positive cases as well as how many people might have been exposed to positive patients .

Robots Performing Their Best In Medical Industry

While everyone is focusing on social distancing , industry is rushing towards achieving contact less solutions , and hence robot necessity comes into scenario . Now a days robots are being used for wide range of necessities right from deliverables to interaction with screens . USA doctors are using device called vici ( teleheath device ) that facilitates doctor to interact with patients by screen . The screen is tablet size screen , which can be fixed on wheels and patients can communicate with doctors and diagnostics can be performed accordingly .

In Singapore , robots are bring used for delivery of meads and medications . What’s more ? One of the isolation ward in China’s Wuhan is fully managed by Robots for delivering of food and medicine to patients .

Self Driven Cars For Delivery & Data Collection

American self-driving car companies are sending their cars to street to promote no human interaction delivery of grocery and medication items . Apart from it , they are also using cars to sanitise roads .

Smart Imaging

Many countries now a days have started installing AI powered thermal cameras which has capability to identify people temperature even in crowd . This solutions brings contactless yet rapid solutions . In addition to it , we can also use this technology to identify people who are roaming without mask .

Health Apps / Tracking Via QR Code

Governments around the globe have developed heath rating systems on the basis of various parameters which suggest users the colour ( Green , Red or Yellow ) on the basis of their medical history and travel history .

Colour codes are easily accessible by app and aids in deciding whether there is a need of person quarantined or not . In addition to it , authorities have also installed various checkpoints to keep an eye on public places to be able to easily verify their colours .

Chatbots

Many health companies and hospitals are using chatbots to interact with patient even inside the hospital . These chatbots are being installed inn emergency rooms to facilitate customer with self care via chatbots . Chatbots at the same time is responsible for sending any kind of updates for instance say test results , arrival time of doctor , lab results etc .

Drones

Another major technology that comes in public these days are drones . Drones are acting as a public eye fro monitoring and broadcasting of real time situation by police department . Drones had already been used around the world for delivery of medical equipments , drugs , food etc . This eliminates any human contact thereby limiting spread of COVID-19 . Drones are also being used in agriculture industry to spray disinfectant and other things on crop.

How Winklix Can Help

Winklix , a leading mobile app development company with over decades of experience is dealing with Fortune 500 , medium as well as startup companies can provide you with expertise services of IoT as well as various other technologies such as AR-VR and more .

We are dedicated towards delivering of robust solutions in tech industry . We have highly qualified team dedicated towards providing end to end solutions from consulting to execution to design , development , launch and maintenance .

Conclusion

Technology is always providing solutions to effectively manage to help control of coronavirus as well as reducing human intervention . Use newer tech innovations using emerging technology that will curb the spread of pandemic.

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