COROID: A Crowdsourcing-based Companion Drones to Tackle Current and Future Pandemics

TL;DR

This paper proposes COROID, a novel crowdsourcing-based drone system equipped with infrared sensors and public device data to assist in managing current and future pandemics, addressing healthcare challenges with innovative technology.

Contribution

Introduction of COROID, a unique drone concept leveraging crowdsourced sensor data and infrared cameras to aid pandemic response efforts, which has not been previously explored.

Findings

Conceptual framework for COROID drone system

Potential to enhance pandemic monitoring and control

Innovative integration of crowdsourcing and drone technology

Abstract

Due to the current COVID-19 virus, which has already been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), we are witnessing the greatest pandemic of the decade. Millions of people are being infected, resulting in thousands of deaths every day across the globe. Even it was difficult for the best healthcare-providing countries could not handle the pandemic because of the strain of treating thousands of patients at a time. The count of infections and deaths is increasing at an alarming rate because of the spread of the virus. We believe that innovative technologies could help reduce pandemics to a certain extent until we find a definite solution from the medical field to handle and treat such pandemic situations. Technology innovation has the potential to introduce new technologies that could support people and society during these difficult times. Therefore, this paper proposes the idea of using drones as a companion to tackle current and future pandemics. Our COROID drone is based on the principle of crowdsourcing sensors data of the public's smart devices, which can correlate the reading of the infrared cameras equipped on the COROID drones. To the best of our knowledge, this concept has yet to be investigated either as a concept or as a product. Therefore, we believe that the COROID drone is innovative and has a huge potential to tackle COVID-19 and future pandemics.