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.