Convergence of Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Cloud Computing, and Emerging Technologies: A Unified Review of Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions

Abstract

The speed of technological changes and the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Computing, Quantum Computing and other Digital Technologies are impacting many industries including Healthcare, Agriculture, Cyber Security, Finance and Entertainment. The single review synthesizes the findings of 15 individual research contributions focusing on AI in surgery, smart irrigation, digital payments, cloud gaming, AI ethics, cybersecurity, AI-cloud integration, sustainable quantum computing, and wearable rehabilitation technologies and chronic disease management. The paper emphasizes several aspects that frequently appear in the different use cases including real-time monitoring, scalability limitations, security and privacy concerns, data-informed decision-making and ethical use of AI. This review brings together various works and provides an analytical system-level perspective towards the potential synergics of the converging technologies, highlights current gaps in the research, and proposes future research paths to act. These results, when combined, stress the need for establishing consistent architecture models, defining clear ethics principles, and allowing deployment strategies to be flexible, to maximize the impact of these new technologies.