  Internet of Things (IoT) has grown rapidly in the last decade and continue to
develop in terms of dimension and complexity offering wide range of devices to
support diverse set of applications. With ubiquitous Internet, connected
sensors and actuators, networking and communication technology, and artificial
intelligence (AI), smart cyber-physical systems (CPS) provide services
rendering assistance to humans in their daily lives. However, the recent
outbreak of COVID-19 (also known as coronavirus) pandemic has exposed and
highlighted the limitations of current technological deployments to curtail
this disease. IoT and smart connected technologies together with data-driven
applications can play a crucial role not only in prevention, continuous
monitoring, and mitigation of the disease, but also enable prompt enforcement
of guidelines, rules and government orders to contain such future outbreaks. In
this paper, we envision an IoT-enabled ecosystem for intelligent monitoring,
pro-active prevention and control, and mitigation of COVID-19. We propose
different architectures, applications and technology systems for various smart
infrastructures including E-health, smart home, smart supply chain management,
smart locality, and smart city, to develop future connected communities to
manage and mitigate similar outbreaks. Furthermore, we present research
challenges together with future directions to enable and develop these smart
communities and infrastructures to fight and prepare against such outbreaks.
