Healthcare is a fundamental feature of smart cities. Artificial intelligence-based systems usage during COVID-19 pandemic like virtual doctors, online consultations, telemedicine has enhanced the capability of reaching the treatment to patients on time, with high efficiency in smart cities. Governments have implemented patient monitoring and disease control systems during the COVID pandemic to reduce the spread of infection. The dynamics of healthcare provisions are changed exceptionally with the advent of deep learning and blockchain methods. Advanced levels of image diagnosis, centralized EHRs, emergency care, and intelligence-based recommendation systems are enhanced using deep learning and blockchain technologies. Integration of IoT devices with smartphones has enabled us to receive alerts to monitor the elderly or needy people with chronic conditions. The adaptation of AI in clinical diagnosis and predictive care systems is remarkable. High precision robotic systems based on AI technology are used in delicate and complicated surgeries in many city hospitals across the globe.
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With the advent of artificial intelligence, Blockchain and IOT systems the Smart Cities are getting developed with high efficiency and growth to improve the quality of human life in terms of health, finance, security, travel, and tourism. Digital Healthcare system is globalized, COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest example the way things are unfolded and speeded up from diagnosis, essential medicine provision, treatment procedures, monitoring patients at quarantine to vaccination roll out and implementation across the globe. It’s evident that many developed and developing countries put their resources together to find solutions for COVID-19 vaccination. COVID-19 is a challenging situation for many countries, especially in cities as the population is dense, which could increase the spread of infections. Deep Learning Techniques such as Neural Networks are playing a prominent role in human disease diagnosis, emergency care systems, mobilization of medical facilities to reduce the time taken for diagnosis and treatment processes involved increasing the human life span and quality of life. In urban cities, population growth is enormous due to migrations after industrial revolution because of increased demands of human services. Processing large data sets into informative source using Deep Learning algorithms enabled huge developments in healthcare system. Artificial Intelligence and e-commerce systems enabled many services like virtual consultations, speedy and efficient diagnostic systems at an early stage of the disease, emergency care services, mobile health services and online medicine delivery systems to facilitate health services in Smart Cities.
AI, Blockchain and IOT Integration in Smart Cities
Smart Cities facilitate high end technology with well-established infrastructure with IOT device integration to provide a better quality of life in cities. Government and private organizations are collaborating in various projects to collect huge amounts of data and analysing this data to build strategies to increase healthcare systems. The key areas are economic growth, the mobility of services, communication & transport mode availability, better public service provision including immigration and citizenship services, environmental sustainability, co-existing of different nationalities & ethnicity people, modern healthcare systems, smart housing facilities & tourism opportunities. (Rocha, 2019)
Smart cities are the solution for growing population needs in cities as the human intellectual grows to facilitate easy management in personal and professional time to lead a better quality of life. Rapid technology growth enhances the development of systems that enable automated systems such as IOT, Robotic devices for the individual service at home and workplace. With the augmentation of Artificial Intelligence, many human tasks are assigned to perform by the machines such as Robotic Vacuum Cleaner, Alexa. With the integration of these devices with IOT enabled much more safety and security of systems from Home Monitoring to Automatic Alerting Devices for older adults and kids at home such as Switching of household electronic items. Smart Cities facilitate high end technology with well-established infrastructure integrated latest technology like AI, Blockchain and IOT systems.
With the integration of IOT systems with AI has provided many facilities in Smart Cities such as elderly people monitoring at home, medicine delivery management systems, handling emergency care situations. The electronic monitoring devices from BP monitoring systems, Diabetic monitoring systems to Intensive Care Units systems have made an enormous improvement in healthcare. Medical Practitioners can concentrate on patient care to provide better treatment and recommendations by offloading their monotonous work to machines. High population in smart cities causes the roads with heavy traffic congestion and jams, which put emergencies in trouble, hence big data and AI is helping come out of these problems and establish a peaceful urban environment lifestyle (Wang, 2020). Mobile health services are great help in seniors and needy people to avail the medical attention and procure safety from health hazards.