An American company has developed a new technology to monitor the health status of living things from the air, by relying on Drones drones, where this technology is installed on the plane to take pictures of faces, take body temperature and measure the heartbeat, as well as assess the condition of the eyes and nose, which is They fly at a height of 91.4 meters, and then transfer them instantly to the ground-based monitoring and monitoring systems, located at longer distances and farther distances, for different health purposes. And the website «Digital Trend» specializing in information and communications technology quoted the CEO and Chairman of the company «Dragon Fly» company specialized in the production and operation of drones, Cameron Chill, that the US government is currently studying the use of «Drones» equipped with the new technology, in efforts to monitor and discover Corona virus in the United States, especially in areas with large human populations, such as airports, markets, public squares, schools, universities, and others.
Thermal camera
Chill explained that airborne health monitoring technology relies primarily on advanced sensors, capable of capturing biometrics data for the body of the organism from a distance.
He added that the drone equipped with the new technology, bears the name "Dragan FlyX4ES", pointing out that this plane is not the first of its kind that carries a technique used in the air surveillance of the bodies of living organisms, as was preceded by that of "Dronez" other The company developed it in 2013 for the benefit of a search and rescue organization and was used to search for a car victim who had an accident during a snowstorm in a road inside the forests, but she lost her way, and the search efforts for a day failed to find the passengers of the car.
And Chil added that when running "Drones" equipped with a thermal camera, the thermal fingerprint of the victim's body was captured in the forest area, and then found and rescued.
expansion
Chill pointed out that the new technology has expanded the use of this idea, and it has been completed from longest and farthest distances now reaching 91.4 meters, and at the same time it is done on multiple vital measurements, and does not stop at measuring body temperature, as it includes capturing data on the heartbeat, and the state of pressure Blood, a medical condition known as "watery eyes" and nasal congestion, as well as a person's stress level.
He indicated that the scope of monitoring was expanded to include taking pictures of faces with highly sensitive cameras, transferring pictures of faces from long distances, and broadcasting them in a live or intermittent manner, pointing out that the purpose of this expansion is to collect all symptoms and biometrics together, to obtain a more accurate and stronger picture of the possibility of infection With an infectious disease or a virus.
Difficulties
Chill mentioned that although the prototypes of the plane equipped with the new technology have proven acceptable progress and success during the operating tests, there are some difficulties that need to be overcome, in order to be able to operate them on a large scale, explaining that the most prominent of these difficulties is the time period required to capture the data From the body of the organism, which the infrared and other sensors scan and photograph, the fact that the current sensors finish capturing data within a time ranging between 10 and 15 seconds, and transmit them to the ground control centers. He considered that this is a slow rate, not commensurate with the speed of movement of objects and objects on the ground, and its movement from one location to another, as it must be reduced to less than five seconds in order to capture data before the body exits the infrared field, and other radar rays.
Ethical concerns
The announcement of air health monitoring technology has raised ethical concerns among many observers about its misuse of control, intimidation, or persecution of some residents. In response, Cameron Chil, chief executive of technology developer Dragan Fly, expressed his belief that the new technology would go the same route as mobile phones, explaining that 20 years ago, it was a matter of concern to talk about a device that can be carried in every Place, put it next to the bed at night, as it can be reached all the time by a party or party, but today it is a reality.
“In the next 10 or 15 years, health monitoring from the air will be a reality for granted, and whoever is born today and who is a teenager will see that it's crazy to talk about it as worrying, on the contrary,” Chill added.