All in the world was going well, when suddenly, one day, everything came to a halt with the spread of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Not just a city or a country, but the whole world was in trouble because of a virus, having no treatment spreading at an unprecedented pace and claiming lives.

It was soon realized that such a powerful virus required something even powerful to combat its spread till a vaccine or a drug was found and thus, promising technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things were given a consideration which did offer a huge helping hand as was desired.

All the people and organizations came together to invent new products and technologies and modify the existing products as per new requirements to benefit the world at large with the help of AI, ML, and IoT. For an in-depth understanding of the role that IoT and AI have played so far in dealing with the virus, numerous real-world use cases have been discussed further.

1. AI-Enabled Thermometers

Fever is the most common symptom of COVID-19 and keeping this fact into consideration, a US-based health technology company, Kinsa Health deployed more than a million AI-enabled thermometers. These thermometers are different from the usual ones because they possess the ability to record the temperatures and then transmit the readings through the internet to the heath-care facilities that assimilate all the data and then generate maps to identify the hotspots i.e. the places where the spread of the virus is the most and this system proved to be highly efficient and accurate.

These thermometers besides helping in identifying hotspots can also be connected to the smartphones where they give a detailed description of the recorded temperatures and symptoms and then advise on whether to take medicines or visit the doctor to the users.

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