ABSTRACT
In the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, techniques and technologies represent important factors in the business of all companies, especially companies that deal with the collection and delivery of shipments. Reduced social distance during a pandemic directly affects new trends and ways of using technology in business, which accelerates and introduces new technologies such as IoT and 5G network in business. In this paper, the concept of 5G and IoT architecture is proposed, which can be used in all technological phases of postal traffic. The paper presents the possibilities and challenges of introducing IoT and 5G technology in postal traffic. Special attention in the paper is focused on the technological phases of collection and delivery of shipments, and changes that occur in the processes as a result of the introduction and integration of new technologies in postal traffic. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
ABSTRACT
The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has emerged as one of the greatest problems of the 21st century worldwide. Efforts to fight this pandemic require a global co-operation and a multidisciplinary approach. An application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to a great degree contributes to fighting the pandemic as these technologies are one of the key services that assist patients, researchers, health institutions and other interested parties in different activities in an effort to fight the pandemic and its consequences. The present paper presents the features of certain mobile applications (apps) that are being used for different purposes such as: tracking patients, COVID-19-related warnings, keeping tracks of statistical data, organising life and business, etc. Aside from presenting the features of a certain number of applications, a review of technologies used for the development of these applications will also be presented. Furthermore, the paper addresses certain challenges that come along with the mobile technologies applications and offers suggestions for future research. © 2021. Alem Čolaković et al;published by UIKTEN. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License.