The IoT more supportive and solidary than ever for Covid19

I am not sure if Covid19 is going to make us better people or not. I suppose that many of you will share this doubt with me. In a few weeks we have gone from applause to casseroles, from allegations and praise to attacks and insults. Attacks and insults from which not even the elders are saved. The coronavirus is unleashing phobias and twitching spirits. We are witnessing with sadness and some resignation to a transformation of the world that I do not like and not only in the digital aspect. We are heading or they are leading us to a polarized world. It saddens me to think that a world of extremes awaits us in which the grays will disappear and we can only choose between black and white.

With forced confinement we have had the opportunity to experience new work models, new ways of relating, buying and selling, learning, taking care of ourselves, playing sports.

We have spent more than 21 days with new habits, but I am afraid that the global experiment forced by an unknown virus, which we do not know how to eliminate at the moment, has not prepared us to react in a different way in the new normality. They have forgotten in these two months of confinement educating and taking responsibility for the day after the end of De-escalated.

Although I promised in my article “As long as the coronavirus lasts, IoT is not my priority”, I have not been able to fulfill it. In these months of bad health and economic news, where many professionals were risking their lives, I felt useless. But he had an obligation to help fight the virus in one way or another.

I am happy to have launched the initiative “IoT in Spain for the Coronavirus” with the aim of raising money for 2 non-governmental organizations: Educo and Caritas. I thank the Spanish experts and friends who accompanied me on the 3 webinars. I have always preached that thanks to the Internet of Things it would improve our quality of life, increase the productivity of companies and democratize access to services related to the connectivity of people and objects and with this initiative I contributed my grain of sand.

We knew of the existence of proven and available IoT applications, it has been this crisis that has sparked the imagination to be used in the first days of the virus outbreak and many companies from all parts of the IoT ecosystem have considered how their current solutions can tactically reused to help organizations and governments combat the pandemic.

But there have been many solidarity initiatives that have highlighted how IoT technologies and solutions have helped in this pandemic. Here below I include some of them:

-         COVID-19 IoT Alliance

-         Made in Spain contra la covid: la pandemia aflora el músculo tecnológico espa?ol

-         Makers y empresas colaboran en la fabricación de dispositivos médicos para combatir el coronavirus by https://twitter.com/ReesistenciaT

-          10 soluciones de IoT para combatir el Coronavirus

-         La nueva tecnología de Beabloo pone a raya el Covid-19 en los espacios físicos

-         5 IoT Projects Aiming to Help Fight Against Coronavirus

-         IoT set to play a growing role in COVID-19 response

-         Sigfox pens letter calling for IoT projects to fight COVID-19, waives connectivity fees

-         A new start-up, Soapy Care, has developed what they call “smart sinks.

If you know other people, projects, initiatives or IoT companies in solidarity with covid, please include them in the comments.

The response of the IoT community has been overwhelming in the face of the COVID-19 invasion to minimize its consequences for humanity and the global economy. Makers, independent consultants, universities and IoT companies have developed or supported solidarity projects that have made it possible to fight the pandemic. But the battle is not over yet, and IoT solidarity must continue in the coming months because the enemy has not yet been defeated and the wounds will take time to heal and close.

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