Managing Humanitarian Challenges of Disaster Responses and Pandemic Crises: Interface of 4IR Ecosystem

Abstract

The human civilization has witnessed myriads of road-block and crossroads at every facet of its journey. Many a time, it becomes untenable to sustain its existence. The series of health hazards, critical epidemics and even the catastrophic pandemic diseases have been challenging our vivid foundation and perpetuity. The disasters both natural and man-made have attempted massively to destroy, devastate, and ruin our glorious leadership on earth. In all such cases, the society has responded through rendering relief and rescue operations and offering emergency health services to mitigate these humanitarian crises. It is imperative to understand, the response time for such emergencies varies with the nature and intensity of the hazards. It is still difficult to reach the epicenter or the point of occurrence even though services have begun to function towards the outer periphery region. The deployment of medical and non-medical personnel at the critical point in the early hours becomes unsuitable and unwise decision. There are issues of the inadequacy of resources for deployment strategy. In the era of 4IR (4th Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0), it is emergent to improvise AI induced guided or auto guided devices that can perform various tasks at such unprecedented humanitarian crisis. The introduction of the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) protocol embedded with medical based AI i.e. Internet of Medical Robotic Things (IoMRT) would be able to deliver superior performance to minimize loss of life and property. This paper has attempted to explore how the IoMRT system can contribute to society with excellence.