Springer Emerging Technologies for Battling Covid-19: Applications and Innovations: 324 (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 324)

The book presents recent trends and solutions to help healthcare sectors and medical staff protect themselves and others and limit the spread of the COVID-19. The book also presents the problems and challenges researchers and academics face in tackling this monumental task. Topics include: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) or drones that can be used to detect infected people in different areas; robots used in fighting the COVID-19 by protecting workers and staff  dealing with infected people; blockchain technology that secures sensitive transactions in strict confidentiality. With contributions from experts from around the world, this book aims to help those creating and honing technology to help with this global threat. From the Back Cover The book presents recent trends and solutions to help healthcare sectors and medical staff protect themselves and others and limit the spread of the COVID-19. The book also presents the problems and challenges researchers and academics face in tackling this monumental task. Topics include: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) or drones that can be used to detect infected people in different areas; robots used in fighting the COVID-19 by protecting workers and staff  dealing with infected people; blockchain technology that secures sensitive transactions in strict confidentiality. With contributions from experts from around the world, this book aims to help those creating and honing technology to help with this global threat. Presents solutions to help healthcare sectors and medical staff protect themselves and patients and limit the spread of the COVID-19; Includes technologies that can be used to help fight COVID-19 such as UAV, deep learning, robotics, blockchain, and big data; Provides researchers, academics, professionals, and students from broad sectors with tools they need to help fight current and future viruses. About the Author Prof. Dr. Fadi Al-Turjman received his Ph.D. in computer science from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, in 2011. He is a full professor and a research center director at Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus. Prof. Al-Turjman is a leading authority in the areas of smart/intelligent, wireless, and mobile networks’ architectures, protocols, deployments, and performance evaluation. His publication history spans over 250 publications in journals, conferences, patents, books, and book chapters, in addition to numerous keynotes and plenary talks at flagship venues. He has authored and edited more than 25 books about cognition, security, and wireless sensor networks’ deployments in smart environments, published by Taylor and Francis, Elsevier, and Springer. He has received several recognitions and best papers’ awards at top international conferences. He also received the prestigious Best Research Paper Award from Elsevier Computer Communications Journal for the period 2015-2018, in addition to the Top Researcher Award for 2018 at Antalya Bilim University, Turkey. Prof. Al-Turjman has led a number of international symposia and workshops in flagship communication society conferences. Currently, he serves as an associate editor and the lead guest/associate editor for several well reputed journals, including the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (IF 22.9) and the Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society (IF 4.7). Dr. V. Ajantha Devi works as Research Head at AP3 Solutions – The Research Foundation. Previously, she worked as Assistant Professor, Department of BCA in Guru Nanak College, Chennai. She completed her PhD from University of Madras in 2015. She has worked as Project Fellow under UGC Major Research Project. She had published good numbers of papers (around 30) in international journals and conference proceedings. She received Special Award: The Integrated Intelligent Research (IIR) – Republic day Achievers Award Conferred Special Award - Social Responsible Researcher for Hearing and Visually Im