01-07-2021 | 12:54 PM
‘Medicines from the Sky’ Project
• The Telangana government has selected 16 primary healthcare centres (PHCs) spread around Vikarabad area hospital for pilot testing the ambitious ‘Medicine from the sky’, the first-of-its-kind project involving delivery of medicines through multiple drones.
About Medicines from the Sky project
• The project involves delivery of medicines through multiple drones. The project is being launched following the approval granted by the Civil Aviation Ministry.
• Consortium has been tasked with development and execution of drone deliveries of medical supplies to remote areas under the project.
• Drone delivery of supplies will be complemented with technologies like geo mapping, trace of location and routing of shipments.
• Technologies have been developed by Flipkart over years in serving millions of customers across India.
• These technologies will be used to conduct ‘Beyond Visual Line of Sight’ (BVLOS) deliveries in remote areas in Telangana where road infrastructure is not conducive to deliver vaccines faster.
• This project is conceived by World Economic Forum and Healthnet Global Limited which outlines the requirements for drone delivery and assesses proposals.
What is Beyond Visual Line of Sight?
• BVLOS is a term relating to the operation of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) and drones at distances outside the normal visible range of the pilot.
• BVLOS drone operations provide numerous advantages over regular line-of-sight flying.
