Abstract

Society 4.0 brings new information technology to mass audience accompanied by economic and social developments in the 21st century. The enablers of Society 4.0 such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) significantly influence current human activities with more efficient information management. Blockchain technology takes a step forward towards innovation and has numerous uses yet to be discovered in developing a smart society. The objective is to extensively review existing literature for the implementation of a smart society to identify different research lacunas. IoT enables real-time data collection by allowing computing systems, humans, and objects to connect for practical purposes and economic gains that call for the highest levels of security, data privacy, authentication, and attack resistance. Blockchain can be a viable solution to satisfy these requirements as it maintains an immutable network transactions log. Applications in volatile, uncertain, and complicated business contexts benefit from the unification of Blockchain with AI in terms of security and efficiency. We conduct a systematic review with explorative analysis to outline the significance of Blockchain integrated with different enablers of Society 4.0 along with different applications. Bibliometric analysis confirms the significance of the integration of Blockchain technology for current and future human activities as an integral part of Society 4.0. This review will provide a lucid research summary for all applications proposed and implemented to fully realize the concept of Society 4.0 using Blockchain technology. This article also enumerates future research avenues for the deployment of the next-generation Blockchain-based Society 4.0 applications.

中文翻译：

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社会区块链技术4.0：关键应用、需求分析、研究趋势、挑战和未来途径的全面回顾

摘要

社会4.0伴随着21世纪经济社会的发展，给大众带来了新的信息技术。区块链、人工智能 (AI) 和物联网 (IoT) 等社会 4.0 的推动者通过更高效的信息管理显着影响当前人类活动。区块链技术向创新迈出了一步，在发展智能社会方面还有许多尚未被发现的用途。目的是广泛回顾有关实施智能社会的现有文献，以找出不同的研究空白。物联网通过允许计算系统、人类和物体进行连接来实现实时数据收集，以实现实际目的和经济收益，这需要最高级别的安全性、数据隐私、身份验证和抗攻击性。区块链可以成为满足这些要求的可行解决方案，因为它维护不可变的网络事务日志。不稳定、不确定和复杂的业务环境中的应用程序受益于区块链与人工智能在安全性和效率方面的统一。我们进行了系统回顾和探索性分析，概述了区块链与社会 4.0 的不同推动者以及不同应用程序集成的重要性。文献计量分析证实了区块链技术作为社会 4.0 不可或缺的一部分对于当前和未来人类活动的重要性。本次审查将为所有提出和实施的应用程序提供清晰的研究总结，以充分实现使用区块链技术的社会 4.0 的概念。本文还列举了部署下一代基于区块链的 Society 4.0 应用程序的未来研究途径。