Review of Medical Drones in Healthcare Applications
- Title
- Review of Medical Drones in Healthcare Applications
- Creator
- Rajamohan K.
- Description
- Drone technology has an immense potential to provide various efficient solutions in the healthcare sector. It has been used in different applications ranging from transportation to rescue. The recent benefits of drone technology to assist emergency situations have achieved academic attention, which results in extensive practical implementation and simulation. However, it still needs to come into a reality beyond a certain extent. The involvement of drones in the healthcare industry has grown to be smart and intelligent for providing better medical care, fast transport and delivery of medicines, and search and rescue operations. The most important reason behind the evolution of drones is the replacement of human service, which is required during the global health crisis. Recent technology such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and the 5G network joined hands with drone technology, resulting in a great benefit to the healthcare industry. Drones are needed to battle the coronoavirus by delivering medicines and test samples. It is also involved in remote pandemic management in the form of helping the authorities to monitor social gatherings, by broadcasting the awareness messages and nearby hospitals details, for spraying virus protection liquid on the street, and many more. Therefore, this chapter proposes the intricacies of the Internet of medical drones in the healthcare sector, in hopes of empowering and eliciting more aggressive investigation. 2023 selection and editorial matter, Saravanan Krishnan and M. Murugappan; individual chapters, the contributors.
- Source
- Internet of Drones: Applications, Opportunities, and Challenges, pp. 59-74.
- Date
- 2023-01-01
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Coverage
- Rajamohan K., School of Sciences CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bangalore-29, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISBN: 978-100087245-3; 978-103217168-5
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Book chapter
Collection
Citation
Rajamohan K., “Review of Medical Drones in Healthcare Applications,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 23, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/18472.