COVID-19 Can Create Opportunity for IoT in the Caribbean
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Network connectivity
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Develop new opportunities + KPIs |
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Fig . 16 : IoT Iteration Cycle
CONCLUSION COVID-19 is accelerating digital transformation through Cloud adoption strategies as :
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Business continuity enabled through Cloud services Forced migration for new customers as a Proof of Concept that showed benefits
This was the main driver for the research which centered around ICT systems including IoT . This research was initially designed as two sections . The first part to identify consumers ' perspectives and then develop a second survey , based on the results , targeted at businesses . Time constraints and delays in feedback and approval , prevented the second business focused research ( which would have looked more closely at IIoT ).
Although only 55 persons provided data , the research was successful as it provided information about the expectations and habits of Caribbean users of digital technologies , of which IoT is a subset , directly as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic .
The novelty is the shift from using personal devices as contact tracing and data gathering tools as well as applying the concepts in automation ( as equipment , product and process tracking ) to the health sector .
Business benefits of the IoT strategy would be reduced human interaction ; reduced human error ; maintenance of required health protocols ; ability to change parameters of health protocol
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