Industry 4.0 technologies and their applications in fighting COVID-19 pandemic
By Mohd Javaid, Abid Haleem, R. Vaishya, Shashi Bahl, R. Suman, A. Vaish. Diabetes & metabolic syndrome, 2020
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Background and aims COVID 19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has created surge demand for essential healthcare equipment, medicines along with the requirement for advance information technologies applications. Industry 4.0 is known as the fourth industrial revolution, which has the potential to fulfil customised requirement during COVID-19 crisis. This revolution has started with the applications of advance manufacturing and digital information technologies. Methods A detailed review of the literature is done on the technologies of Industry 4.0 and their applications in the COVID-19 pandemic, using appropriate search words on the databases of PubMed, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Research Gate. Results We found several useful technologies of Industry 4.0 which help for proper control and management of COVID-19 pandemic and these have been discussed in this paper. The available technologies of Industry 4.0 could also help the detection and diagnosis of COVID-19 and other related problems and symptoms. Conclusions Industry 4.0 can fulfil the requirements of customised face masks, gloves, and collect information for healthcare systems for proper controlling and treating of COVID-19 patients. We have discussed ten major technologies of Industry 4.0 which help to solve the problems of this virus. It is useful to provide day to day update of an infected patient, area-wise, age-wise and state-wise with proper surveillance systems. We also believe that the proper implementation of these technologies would help to enhance education and communication regarding public health. These Industry 4.0 technologies could provide a lot of innovative ideas and solution for fighting local and global medical emergencies.
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Citations in the corpus
- Adoption of Digital Technologies in Health Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Systematic Review of Early Scientific Literature (2020, unknown): “In particular, within the reviewed articles, we identified numerous suggestions of the use of AI-powered tools for the diagnosis and screening of SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19, as reported in Table 4 [20,22,23,25,26,28,30,32,33, 38,48,50,54,61,69,70,77,78,94,100,108,109,122,130].”
- From Industry 4.0 to Agriculture 4.0: Current Status, Enabling Technologies, and Research Challenges (2020, unknown): “0 technologies in fighting coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was introduced in [11].”
- Internet of things (IoT) applications to fight against COVID-19 pandemic (2020, unknown): “This technology is helpful to capture the real-time data and other necessary information of the infected patient [7] [8] [9] .”
- Small business awareness and adoption of state-of-the-art technologies in emerging and developing markets, and lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, unknown): “As common with technological revolutions, the unfolding events provide opportunities and threats, produce cham-pions and casualties in EMDEs, and developed economies (Cowling, Brown, and Rocha 2020; Javaid et al. 2020; Akpan, Soopramanien, and Kwak 2020).”