Industry 4.0 technologies and their applications in fighting COVID-19 pandemic
Autor
Javaid, Mohd
Haleem, Abid
Vaishya, Raju
Bahl, Shashi
Suman, Rajiv
Vaish, Abhishek
Institución
Resumen
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.