The health measurement system does not record the subjects at a location that the drone “saw.”“It just comes back and says in this particular geographic location, where you did the health measurement data, there were 22 people in the field view.

While fever-drone users and makers may claim that they can use their aircraft to identify possible COVID-19 symptoms, I could find no scientific studies or reports that proved this was true. Sign up for our Tech newsletter. If the drone goes down, there’s no SD card that you can pull out with a bunch of great data.”Interestingly, Westport wasn’t using Draganfly drones — the plan was to deploy its Commander series in phase three. The next step would have been to test those policies.
“Those happen to be the same set of vital signs that we can now pick up anonymized in a crowd to determine if there’s infectious or respiratory challenges.”Draganfly started test flights in Westport, Connecticut to identify social distancing and detect symptoms. If you value our work, please disable your ad blocker.By joining Slate Plus you support our work and get exclusive content. So that is a secure cloud environment where all of that AI happens. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. We look forward to working with global agencies and industry to rapidly deploy this important technology,” said Cameron Chell, Draganfly CEO.“Draganfly is honored to work on such an important project given the current pandemic facing the world with COVID-19,” said Andy Card, Draganfly director and former U.S. Secretary of Transportation and White House chief of staff.

Zak Doffman Contributor. The drone will be fitted with a specialized sensor and a computer vision system capable of detecting vital signs that are linked to having coronavirus. If you see a drone fly by in the future, it could be looking for evidence of COVID-19. Or everything is fine [and] they don’t need to go in and waste their time there.”Westport First Selectman Jim Marpe called it the “Flatten the Curve Pilot Program.” It was supposed to help the community “practice safe social distancing, while identifying possible coronavirus and other life-threatening symptoms.” Police Chief Foti Koskinas said at the time: “Using drones remains a go-to technology for reaching remote areas with little to no manpower required. Instead of sending a few cruisers out and having officers walk around, they could put one camera up in the sky and assess where to apply resources.“Social distancing, which we’ve shown on the videos, that’s actual visual data,” Chell said. Also tell them what sensors to purchase for their phones? A Furthermore, it’s unclear whether it’s even possible to accurately screen multiple people for fever at once with these methods—even stationary on the ground.
That piece of IP, go to market, and actual commercialization piece is all in-house [at] Draganfly. The company then developed the productized form, including camera networks and drones.“That includes everything from going out and doing the policy development work through to what the GUI needs to look like,” Chell said.