Role of Drone Technology Helping in Alleviating the COVID-19 Pandemic

Mohsan, Syed Agha Hassnain; Zahra, Qurat ul Ain; Khan, Muhammad Asghar; Alsharif, Mohammed H.; Elhaty, Ismail A.; Jahid, Abu

doi:10.3390/mi13101593

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“…UAVs play a vital role in surveying the affected area and assessing the damage caused by a disaster. UAVs can deliver emergency supplies such as food, medicine, and medical equipment to disaster-stricken regions ( Mohsan et al, 2022b ). UAVs play an essential role in power line monitoring in smart cities.…”

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Applications, challenges, and solutions of unmanned aerial vehicles in smart city using blockchain

Faisal Abbas Shah,

Mazhar,

Shloul

et al. 2024

PeerJ Computer Science

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Real-time data gathering, analysis, and reaction are made possible by this information and communication technology system. Data storage is also made possible by it. This is a good move since it enhances the administration and operation services essential to any city’s efficient operation. The idea behind “smart cities” is that information and communication technology (ICTs) need to be included in a city’s routine activities in order to gather, analyze, and store enormous amounts of data in real-time. This is helpful since it makes managing and governing urban areas easier. The “drone” or “uncrewed aerial vehicle” (UAV), which can carry out activities that ordinarily call for a human driver, serves as an example of this. UAVs could be used to integrate geospatial data, manage traffic, keep an eye on objects, and help in an emergency as part of a smart urban fabric. This study looks at the benefits and drawbacks of deploying UAVs in the conception, development, and management of smart cities. This article describes the importance and advantages of deploying UAVs in designing, developing, and maintaining in smart cities. This article overviews UAV uses types, applications, and challenges. Furthermore, we presented blockchain approaches for addressing the given problems for UAVs in smart research topics and recommendations for improving the security and privacy of UAVs in smart cities. Furthermore, we presented Blockchain approaches for addressing the given problems for UAVs in smart cities. Researcher and graduate students are audience of our article.

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Applications, challenges, and solutions of unmanned aerial vehicles in smart city using blockchain

Faisal Abbas Shah,

Mazhar,

Shloul

et al. 2024

PeerJ Computer Science

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“…It helps to quickly implement isolation rules in any certain area in order to reduce the risk of further disease spread. Similarly, on-board loudspeaker can help to deliver official policies and give appropriate instructions in any community [ 115 ]. UAVs can help to deliver daily life items, ensuring reduction in mass contact at crowded markets or other public places.…”

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): practical aspects, applications, open challenges, security issues, and future trends

Mohsan

Othman

et al. 2023

Intel Serv Robotics

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Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones have emerged as a ubiquitous and integral part of our society. They appear in great diversity in a multiplicity of applications for economic, commercial, leisure, military and academic purposes. The drone industry has seen a sharp uptake in the last decade as a model to manufacture and deliver convergence, offering synergy by incorporating multiple technologies. It is due to technological trends and rapid advancements in control, miniaturization, and computerization, which culminate in secure, lightweight, robust, more-accessible and cost-efficient UAVs. UAVs support implicit particularities including access to disaster-stricken zones, swift mobility, airborne missions and payload features. Despite these appealing benefits, UAVs face limitations in operability due to several critical concerns in terms of flight autonomy, path planning, battery endurance, flight time and limited payload carrying capability, as intuitively it is not recommended to load heavy objects such as batteries. As a result, the primary goal of this research is to provide insights into the potentials of UAVs, as well as their characteristics and functionality issues. This study provides a comprehensive review of UAVs, types, swarms, classifications, charging methods and regulations. Moreover, application scenarios, potential challenges and security issues are also examined. Finally, future research directions are identified to further hone the research work. We believe these insights will serve as guidelines and motivations for relevant researchers.

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“…The research in [ 37 ] investigates several potential technologies that could be used to lessen the risk posed by COVID-19. This includes UAVs.…”

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A Novel Social Distancing Approach for Limiting the Number of Vehicles in Smart Buildings Using LiFi Hybrid-Network

Murad

Yussof

Badeel

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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The coronavirus (COVID-19) has arisen as one of the most severe problems due to its ongoing mutations as well as the absence of a suitable cure for this virus. The virus primarily spreads and replicates itself throughout huge groups of individuals through daily touch, which regretfully can happen in several unanticipated way. As a result, the sole viable attempts to constrain the spread of this new virus are to preserve social distance, perform contact tracing, utilize suitable safety gear, and enforce quarantine measures. In order to control the virus’s proliferation, scientists and officials are considering using several social distancing models to detect possible diseased individuals as well as extremely risky areas to sustain separation and lockdown procedures. However, models and systems in the existing studies heavily depend on the human factor only and reveal serious privacy vulnerabilities. In addition, no social distancing model/technique was found for monitoring, tracking, and scheduling vehicles for smart buildings as a social distancing approach so far. In this study, a new system design that performs real-time monitoring, tracking, and scheduling of vehicles for smart buildings is proposed for the first time named the social distancing approach for limiting the number of vehicles (SDA-LNV). The proposed model employs LiFi technology as a wireless transmission medium for the first time in the social distance (SD) approach. The proposed work is considered as Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication. It might aid authorities in counting the volume of likely affected people. In addition, the proposed system design is expected to help reduce the infection rate inside buildings in areas where traditional social distancing techniques are not used or applicable.

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Role of Drone Technology Helping in Alleviating the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 34 publications

References 102 publications

Applications, challenges, and solutions of unmanned aerial vehicles in smart city using blockchain

Applications, challenges, and solutions of unmanned aerial vehicles in smart city using blockchain

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): practical aspects, applications, open challenges, security issues, and future trends

A Novel Social Distancing Approach for Limiting the Number of Vehicles in Smart Buildings Using LiFi Hybrid-Network

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