Table 7: A comparative analysis of the proposed approach with existing drone-based systems for COVID—19 response.
Features: A: Covid-19-related Data Collection, B: Multi-level Classification, C: Announcement, D: Person Identification, E: Real-time Video Communication, F: Sanitization, G: Surveillance, H: Delivery, I: Communication Relay.
Conclusions
PHC systems offer an inexpensive, usable set of portable sensors to transfer clinical data to a remote doctor to make an accurate decision. This paper mentioned relevant existing and future public health implications arising from the coronavirus spread. It presented an overview of how some drone-based initiatives have been developed to handle the situation. Our proposed PHC platform and its related methods is a leading contributor to public health responses, particularly for residents in prolonged curfews, and suggests a strong possibility of positive impact. In this paper, we redesigned the current PHC platform as a means to contain the COVID-19 spread, as well as suggested a COVID-19 triage process (CT-process), that classifies the patients on whether they need to be connected on a video call to a doctor and moved to a clinic for further inspection and treatment, by considering and analyzing the main symptoms of COVID-19, such as body temperature, heartbeat, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and SpO2. Additionally, the proposed approach allows for the delivery of essential coronavirus mitigation drugs. By achieving this, it minimizes the COVID-19 transmission risk and reduces psychological stress on frontline medical personnel, and maximizes the availability of healthcare resources to be used by patients who are most in desperate need of them.