A drone-facilitated disaster response system with first aid delivery: Intelligent healthcare
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2022-05
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The use of drones has become prevalent, especially for big tech companies like Google,
Amazon, DHL and so on. It is now becoming the future form of delivery services. In sub-
Saharan countries that are developing, UAVs can be used to deliver certain products to parts
of the country that vehicles cannot operate or for faster, uninterrupted delivery. Building a
system that will be used for natural disaster response (especially fire disasters) and first aid
delivery is the focus of this project. In an article discussing fire accident trends in Ghana
[1], the researchers discovered that the rate of fire incidences increased each year. A major
factor to this increase was negligence and amongst the several causes of fire accidents, 41%
of them were due to domestic fires. About 379 deaths and 5489 fire incidents were recorded
in the year 2013. This year, about 5 fire accidents have already been recorded in regions like
Kumasi, Accra, Apiate and Tema [2].
This project integrates the use of a website application called "Drone Aid" to order drone
delivery services and circuitry to build an efficient disaster response and delivery drone. It
is also important that the fire response system implements long range communication
technology that is also low power and energy efficient. The drone prototype in this project
is built from a drone frame kit and further customized for first aid delivery and circuit
carriage. While developing this system, other constraints such as cost of materials, drone
capacity/payload and drone flight range are considered.
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Capstone Project submitted to the Department of Engineering, Ashesi University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering, May 2022
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fire outbreak