E-commerce main Flipkart on Friday mentioned it has partnered with Telangana authorities to lead a consortium tasked with the event and execution of the drone deliveries of medical provides to distant areas below the ‘Medicines from the Sky’ undertaking. As a part of the consortium, Walmart-owned Flipkart will deploy drones and allow deliveries of vaccines and medical provides. These efforts will likely be complemented with applied sciences resembling geo mapping, routing of shipments and observe and hint of location and so forth, developed by Flipkart through the years in serving hundreds of thousands of shoppers throughout the nation, a press release mentioned. A mixture of those applied sciences will then be used to conduct ‘Beyond Visual Line of Sight’ (BVLOS) deliveries in distant areas of the state the place the street infrastructure is just not conducive for quick supply of vaccines, it added.
The pilot, which is predicted to be carried out for over six days, will likely be examined out for delivering 1000’s of vaccines whereas protecting in thoughts all the protection and effectivity parameters, the assertion mentioned. “The COVID-19 disaster has pushed the envelope in the speedy growth of scalable and strong applied sciences and the Medicines from the Sky undertaking is a testomony to that. It is a decisive step in making use of cutting-edge applied sciences for the protection and wellbeing of the lots,” Flipkart Senior Vice-President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Rajneesh Kumar said. He added that Flipkart is proud to partner with the Telangana government in leading the consortium by utilising its nuanced understanding of supply chain and technologies governing automated movement of shipments in fulfilling the dire needs of citizens across the state. The ‘Medicines from the Sky’ is a project conceived by the World Economic Forum and Healthnet Global Limited that outlines the requirements for drone delivery and how to assess proposals.
The Telangana government has adopted this framework to implement drones for last-mile delivery and will integrate them into the state’s healthcare supply chain. “This pilot will set the premise for the utilisation of drone systems in providing healthcare and product delivery in remote areas and even during disasters, he said.
Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary (IT and I&C), Government of Telangana said the state has been a pioneer in using technology for improving the lives of the citizens.
“Using drones to deliver healthcare supplies to people in remote and inaccessible areas is a one-of-a-kind initiative ever undertaken in our country and we are happy to lead this initiative in collaboration with partners such as Flipkart. This will go a long way in testing best-in-class technology solutions to tide over future crises, he added.
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