An Application of IoT to revolutionize Agro Sector

In this paper, an IoT based automated water irrigation system is proposed. This system is used to increase the production rate of agriculture based on the internet of things (IoT) and cloud computing. Sensor technology has been developed and various kinds of sensor such as humidity, temperature, soil moisture sensor, and pH sensors are used to collect information about the condition of the soil. By using the advanced technologies, the farmers get benefitted for better production in agriculture. Keywords: Sprinkling, Smart Sensor Pouch, MSP 430, RS 485 Port, IoT, Cloud Computing

Blockchain-Based Digital Twins Collaboration for Smart Pandemic Alerting: Decentralized COVID-19 Pandemic Alerting Use Case

Emerging technologies such as digital twins, blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) play a vital role in driving the industrial revolution in all domains, including the healthcare sector. As a result of COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, there is a significant need for medical cyber-physical systems to adopt these emerging technologies to combat COVID-19 paramedic crisis. Also, acquiring secure real-time data exchange and analysis across multiple participants is essential to support the efforts against COVID-19. Therefore, we have introduced a blockchain-based collaborative digital twins framework for decentralized epidemic alerting to combat COVID-19 and any future pandemics. The framework has been proposed to bring together the existing advanced technologies (i.e., blockchain, digital twins, and AI) and then provide a solution to decentralize epidemic alerting to combat COVID-19 outbreaks. Also, we have described how the conceptual framework can be applied in the decentralized COVID-19 pandemic alerting use case.

Solving Paradox by Increasing Technological Capacity: A Critique of the Concept of Business Model Innovation at TikTok

ABSTRACT This paper comments on Yulun Ma and Yue Hu's (2021) recent article ‘Business Model Innovation and Experimentation in Transforming Economies: ByteDance and TikTok’. It argues that TikTok's international success is not due to so-called business model innovation; instead, it is because ByteDance has overcome three major hurdles facing emerging market firms pursuing internationalization. It also posits that the case of TikTok offers inspiration for theorizing paradox, namely, individuals and organizations can solve paradoxical tensions by increasing capacity through the use of advanced technologies.

Artificial Intelligence in Human Resource Practices With Challenges and Future Directions

Artificial intelligence is a branch of science and technology that has been used effectively over the decades in various fields, and now it has become an indispensable part of organizational practices as it is one of the leading technologies in the current era, and now there is an emerging trend of applying AI technologies within the businesses. The central necessity of human resource management is also majorly based on technological approaches as it became a potential need for any human resources department to perform its role in the development of the whole organization. Technologies based on AI are and will be the smart system of the future and it's also changing the processes of human resource management by making it more dependent on advanced technologies. Through the chapter, the researcher will get to know the artificial technologies being practiced in HR practices and explore the probable and potential of technicality of AI in HRM and also the challenges associated with AI in HRM and its future possibilities.

Relevance of Artificial Intelligence in Modern Healthcare

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are playing a major role in addressing and understanding better the COVID-19 crisis in recent days. These technologies are simulating human intelligence into the machines and consume large amounts of data for identifying and understanding the patterns and insights quickly than a human and preparing us with new kinds of technologies for preventing and fighting with COVID-19 and other pandemics. It helps a lot to notice the people who got infected by the virus and to forecast the infection rate in the upcoming days with the earlier data. Healthcare and medical sectors are in requirement of advanced technologies for taking accurate decision to manage this virus spread. AI-enabled technologies are working in a talented way to do things intelligently like human intelligence. Thus, the AI-enabled technologies are employed for attaining accurate health results by examining, forecasting, and checking present infected and possibly future cases.