This paper explores the role of Internet of Things (IoT) and its impact on supply chain management (SCM) through an extensive literature review. Important aspects of IoT in SCM are covered including IoT definition, main IoT technology enablers and various SCM processes and applications. We offer several categorisation of the extant literature, such as based on methodology, industry sector and focus on a classification based on major supply chain processes. In addition, a bibliometric analysis of the literature is also presented. We find that most studies have focused on conceptualising the impact of IoT with limited analytical models and empirical studies. In addition, most studies have focused on the delivery supply chain process and the food and manufacturing supply chains. Areas of future SCM research that can support IoT implementation are also identified.

Internet of things and supply chain management: a literature review

Enterprises are confronted with new customer requirements and challenged by global competition leading to fundamental changes of today’s industry. Against this background, at present Industry 4.0 i...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00207543.2019.1612964

Logistics 4.0: a systematic review towards a new logistics system

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

The Internet of Things (IoT) has limitless possibilities for applications in the entire spectrum of our daily lives, from healthcare to automobiles to public safety. The IoT is expected to grow into a trillion dollar industry worldwide over the next decade. The components of the IoT will be integrated with cloud computing, which will facilitate easy access and analysis of big data stored in cloud systems across the globe. Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is based on wireless communication systems and offers easy integration into the Internet cloud system. The potential of RFID tag sensor technologies has been studied in different industrial sectors including healthcare, food safety, environmental pollution, anti-counterfeiting of bank-notes and fake medicines, factories, customer shopping behavior, logistics, public transport, and safety. In this review article, the role of inkjet-printed RFID tag sensors is described in the emerging fields of IoT and the Internet of Nano Things (IoNT). This review is concerned with the use of inkjet-printed nanomaterials to fabricate RFID-enabled devices as a component of IoT technology. Inkjet-printed flexible RFID tag sensors based on nanomaterials including multilayer graphene, carbon nanotubes, gold, silver and copper nanoparticles, conductive polymers and their based composites used for detecting toxic gases and chemicals are discussed. Inkjet-printed nanomaterial-based RFID tag sensors that can be easily printed on flexible paper, plastic, textile, glass, and metallic surfaces, show potential in flexible and wearable electronics technologies. Finally, challenges such as energy and safety issues for RFID tag sensors are analyzed.

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Inkjet printed nanomaterial based flexible radio frequency identification (RFID) tag sensors for the internet of nano things

Whereas mobile phone-based surveillance has the potential to provide real-time validated data for disease clustering and prompt respond and investigation, little evidence is available on current practice in sub-Sahara Africa. The objective of this review was to examine mobile phone-based mHealth interventions for Public Health surveillance in the region. We conducted electronic search in MEDLINE, EMBASE, IEE Xplore, African Index Medicus (AIM), BioMed Central, PubMed Central (PMC), the Public Library of Science (PLoS) and IRIS for publications used in the review. In all, a total of nine studies were included which focused on infectious disease surveillance of malaria (n = 3), tuberculosis (n = 1) and influenza-like illnesses (n = 1) as well as on non-infectious disease surveillance of child malnutrition (n = 2), maternal health (n = 1) and routine surveillance of various diseases and symptoms (n = 1). Our review revealed that mobile phone-based surveillance projects in the sub-Saharan African countries are on small scale, fragmented and not well documented. We conclude by advocating for a strong drive for more research in the applied field as well as a better reporting of lessons learned in order to create an epistemic community to help build a more evidence-based field of practice in mHealth surveillance in the region.

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Mobile Phone-Based mHealth Approaches for Public Health Surveillance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review

The mobile communication technology is fast gaining enormous popularity offering a wide range of capabilities for distant communication, which forms the basis of its use in all facets of human activities. This work uses the mobile programming technology provided by JAVA to design and simulate an instant message exchanger and language mapping that allows patients to reach out to physicians and have access to health care services. A working model for a mobile chat application using various components such as mobile client terminal, the Internet and server was developed. The model was simulated using JAVA 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) and the JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). The tool developed in this work has been tested and usability assessment conducted among medical practitioners and a number of clients. Result shows that the solution will be useful in providing health care services to semi-literates (those who cannot communicate in official language) without a physical contact with the doctors, in a rural setting. Ethical and legal modalities are being worked out for national usage of this solution.

A yoruba-english language translator for doctor-patient mobile chat application

On the use of the Internet of Things and Web 2.0 in inventory management

Research efforts have produced a lot of applications and hardware devices for healthcare services especially in the developed world. However, much still left to be desire in mobile wireless healthcare research that produces semantic web services applications solution especially for the developing African countries. The first successful implementation of a mobile wireless application for the healthcare industry in the United States of America (USA) was announced on 13 October, 2008 by InfoLogic. This paper presents our research in the design and implementation of a framework for cost cutting electronic healthcare delivery services for rural/suburban communities. This is achieved through the development of a semantic web services framework that would be deployed to provide wireless mobile healthcare delivery services and health management services for rural African communities. Currently no e-health application making use of semantic web services are known or reported in literature to have been implemented in any real life situation in Africa. The product of this research will be deployed in some selected rural communities in south-western Nigeria. Software artifacts will be implemented on the proposed framework. The software will be deployed for use by patients and healthcare practitioner in some selected hospitals in south-western Nigeria.

Framework for a context-aware mobile e- health service discovery infrastructure for rural/suburban healthcare

Translation is the transfer of the meaning of a text from one language to another. It is a means of sharing information across languages and therefore essential for addressing information inequalities. The work of translation was originally carried out by human translators and its limitations led to the development of machine translators. Machine Translation is a subfield of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another. There are different approaches to machine translation. This paper reviews the two major approaches (single vs. hybrid) to machine translation and provides critique of existing machine translation systems with their merits and demerits. Several application areas of machine translation and various methods used in evaluating them were also discussed. Our conclusion from the reviewed literatures is that a single approach to machine translation fails to achieve satisfactory performance resulting in lower quality and fluency of the output. On the other hand, a hybrid approach combines the strength of two or more approaches to improve the overall quality and fluency of the translation.

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Approaches to Machine Translation: A Review

This work takes a study on the Web Services—a technology that has come to change the future of Computing and e-commerce. Web Services is a distributed computing technology that offers interaction and collaboration among vendors and customers, with the vision of providing ubiquitous computing. When you plug an appliance into the electricity socket, you don't worry about how the electricity generation and distribution takes place. All that is expected is uninterrupted power and the utility bill that you get at the end of the month! Similarly, Web Services will make computing resources, both hardware and software, accessible through the Internet just like electricity is made available. Web Services will do for computing what the Internet did for data. They would encourage a pay-per-usage model and make dynamic collaborations possible. One of the key definitions of Web Services is: "Web Services are loosely coupled software components delivered over Internet-standard technologies.” This paper considers the importance of web service as well as the success and the advantages of web service over the early technologies like: EDI, CORBA, and COM. Distinction is made between Web Service and Service. The components technologies of Web Service such as the WSDL, XML, UDDI, and, SOAP and how they apply to e-health applications, were examined. The creation of Web Service using the ASP.NET, Apache axis and Java2 Platform among other issues were also considered. We present a model for web services enabled infrastructure which is a framework for our e-health project at our research centre. In effect this paper will create a good knowledge for those new to web services as well as make more enlightenment to those already acquainted with the technology especially those developing applications for e-health services.

http://www.jatit.org/volumes/research-papers/Vol12No2/5Vol12No2.pdf

John B. Oladosu

Papers

A yoruba-english language translator for doctor-patient mobile chat application

On the use of the Internet of Things and Web 2.0 in inventory management

Framework for a context-aware mobile e- health service discovery infrastructure for rural/suburban healthcare

Approaches to Machine Translation: A Review

On the use of web services technology in e-health applications