Surveys reveal integrated IoT and AI solutions improve outbreak prediction and rural healthcare, suggesting gaps remain.
The continued outbreak of waterborne diseases in rural and tribal communities is a widespread health concern especially so in monsoon season where infectious outbreaks of cholera, diarrhoea, and typhoid are calculated due to the sourcing of contaminated waters. Here is a survey of the collision between Internet of Things (IoT) technology, predictive analytics embedded with artificial intelligence (AI), and autonomous communication engines in managing intelligent outbreaks. Through systematic review of 19 research articles, published in 2019-2025, we divide the current body of literature into four key categories: IoT- based water quality monitoring systems, AI-based forecasts of regular outbreaks, mobile health (mHealth) reporting platforms, and frameworks of analogy AI communication. In our analysis, we find sales acute shortcomings on the way to developing integrated solutions allowing, at the same time, real-time monitoring of the environment, predictive analytics, and autonomous alerting of communities. Whereas single components show promising results, IoT sensors detecting contamination with 95-98 percent accuracy and machine-learning models predicting outbreaks with 85-92 percent accuracy, larger systems that span the full outbreak management pipeline have not yet been developed successfully.
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