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Platform-Driven Pandemic Management
Published in Ram Shringar Raw, Vishal Jain, Sanjoy Das, Meenakshi Sharma, Pandemic Detection and Analysis Through Smart Computing Technologies, 2022
Jayachandran Kizhakoot Ramachandran, Puneet Sachdeva
Mass surveillance is also an integral part when it comes to public health management. It allows to get insights related to compliance on the ground [17]. Compliance for keeping 6-feet social distance, mask adherence or to prevent crowding in certain places. With the help of staffed or unmanned aerial vehicles (MAV/UAV), in other words using drones, guidelines are enforced. The collected metrics make their way to the common data platform, for it to be processed and reported upon. Availability of such metrics in near-real time increases the effectiveness and efficiency for controlling the spread on the ground and to find actual or potential hotspots.
Review of Effective Mathematical Modelling of Coronavirus Epidemic and Effect of drone Disinfection
Published in S. Prabha, P. Karthikeyan, K. Kamalanand, N. Selvaganesan, Computational Modelling and Imaging for SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, 2021
Agnishwar Jayaprakash, R. Nithya, M. Kayalvizhi
Garuda Aerospace has brought a Corona-Killer Automated Disinfecting Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that helps in sanitization of common public property, hospitals and tall buildings. These drones are used to spray disinfectants on buildings up to 450 feet. The most crucial Factor in using the drone is that the distance it can cover in a day is 20 km; a human can cover only four to five km. 300 drones can cover and disinfect 6000 linear km in a day. Drone-based solutions are meant to replace human health workers in sanitation activities and protect them from infection. The drones will do the same job and cover a lot more distance. Every day from 6 am to 6 pm, a drone works 12 hours, whereas a human being can work only 6−8 hours while carrying heavy equipment. Figure 6.2 shows a drone disinfecting a city.
The Potential of Drone Technology in Pandemics
Published in Abbas Rajabifard, Greg Foliente, Daniel Paez, COVID-19 Pandemic, Geospatial Information, and Community Resilience, 2021
David R. Green, Alex R. Karachok, Billy J. Gregory
During the COVID-19 crisis, drones have already been used to deliver medication and test samples in other remote locations in Ghana, Rwanda, and Chile. In Charlotte, North Caroline, USA, drones have been used to deliver personal protective equipment and supplies to frontline medical teams. This initiative was part of the North Carolina Department of Transportation's (NCDOT's) Unmanned Aircraft System Integration Pilot Program (IPP).
Developing a schedule integrated automated safety planning tool for residential construction projects
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2023
Prasanna Venkatesan Ramani, Talanti Ravi Arun Kumar
Drones can be used for safety planning by making videos about the safety measurements of the ongoing site activities and help to find the hazards identified on the site. By using the aerial vehicle, the amount of time spent on the site can be reduced and the progress of the work can be carried out faster with fewer accidents [12]. RFID and ultra-wideband sensors can be used to track the workers’ positions on the site and alert them with the alarm if they reach the edges of the construction site. This helps in carrying out the site safety management with ease [20]. H. Kim et al. [8] studied the automatic identification of hazardous project areas by analysing the worker routes. The real-time location system was used to track the workers’ route while transporting the materials on the site, and then by processing the actual route of the workers with the optimal route the non-hazardous routes were identified and implemented in this study.
Delivering epilepsy care in low-resource settings: the role of technology
Published in Expert Review of Medical Devices, 2021
Amza Ali, Diba Dindoust, Justin Grant, Dave Clarke
Two other issues are of importance in follow up care and which may potentially be solved with low-tech technology. The first issue is medication availability in remote geographies, especially relatively inaccessible mountainous areas. Drones have been used to deliver blood products in Rwanda, a technology called Zipline, which has reduced the delivery time for blood from 4 hours to just 15 minutes and much more reliably [60]. It can similarly deliver medications to a centralized health center or even directly to the patient in smaller communities with just a few patients. Similarly, drones may be able to return blood samples of for example ASD levels from a remote laboratory to a central city laboratory for analysis, saving the patient from coming all the way into the city with all its attendant risks.
Identification of Swimmers in Distress Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Experience at the Mont-Tremblant IRONMAN Triathlon
Published in Prehospital Emergency Care, 2020
Valerie Homier, François de Champlain, Michael Nolan, Richard Fleet
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly referred to as drones, are remotely piloted aircraft initially used in the military and increasingly used in industry and the public sector (1–4). Emerging UAV applications in medicine include provision of disaster assessments in areas where access is severely restricted, and delivery of aid packages (medicines, vaccines, blood, medical supplies, etc.) to remote areas (5–7). The potential of UAVs to provide rapid access to automated external defibrillators for cardiac arrest patients is being explored in Canada and several European countries (8–13). One arena where application of UAV technology has not been well studied is outdoor sporting events such as triathlons and extreme wilderness competitions. Millions of individuals participate in these events annually, and medical emergencies can occur (14, 15). Use of UAVs could help identify athletes showing early signs of distress and improve the timeliness of emergency care.