Pandemic vs Technology

Book excerpt: This book focuses on the advancement of digital technologies and epidemiological issues. Modern digital technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), 5G-based Internet of Things (IoT), and others, are crucial for achieving positive health, social, and economic outcomes when battling the coronavirus pandemic. This book covers these modern digital technologies and their effectiveness in healthcare and socio-economic environments. In addition, with its potential effects in many industries, the use of 5G technology is growing, offering more realtime services than anticipated. This book also intends to showcase 5G-based solutions that can address COVID-19 difficulties in various contexts by concentrating on 5G technology and existing healthcare issues. In order to address current epidemic concerns, this book focuses on the expanding roles of 5G-powered technologies, including artificial intelligence, the Internet of things, big data analytics, cloud computing, and other digital platforms. The context of this book examines numerous technological and healthcare difficulties as well as opportunities for creating AI and 5G-powered healthcare solutions. In addition, it provides a thorough evaluation of 5G-powered emerging applications to tackle the coronavirus outbreak. Key Features • Emphasizes the fundamental concepts of Industry 4.0 technologies and their applications in different sectors. • Covers the pandemic and post-pandemic issues, and presents the deadliest pandemics in human history and a chronological history of the COVID-19 pandemic. • Incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies, and presents AI approaches in different facets of healthcare during the pandemic. • Provides insights into several aspects of 5G technology and 5G-powered solutions in handling the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown situations. • Includes the concepts of digital divide and global status of using emerging technologies and the Internet, and their impacts on society. • Highlights the challenges and opportunities of deploying AI and 5G-powered technologies, further research directions, and policy recommendations to the states for the future pandemics.