https://www.ronpub.com/ojiot/OJIOT_2020v6i1n01e_VLIOT2020.html Channel of the paper: Sven Groppe and Mu-Chun Su: Due to COVID-19 the World's Activities Stopped, but not Research: Workshop on Very Large Internet of Things (VLIoT 2020), Open Journal of Internet Of Things (OJIOT), 6 (1), pages 1-5, URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020080219331432369272, 2020 en-us https://www.ronpub.com/ojiot/OJIOT_2020v6i1n01e_VLIOT2020.html http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020080219331432369272 The Very Large Internet of Things (VLIoT) workshop aims at discussing the solutions of problems arising especially for large-scale configurations. After continuously monitoring the global COVID-19 pandemic this year, the workshop changes the format the first time to an online event in order to overcome problems like travel restrictions. Besides missing face-to-face meetings the online format also has chances like an increased number of participants, less travel burdens and saving budget. Hence we received many high-quality submissions, from which we accepted 9 to be introduced in this editorial.