Abstract
In order to deliver medical products (medicines, vaccines, blood packs, etc.) in time for needed areas, a method of transporting goods using drones is being studied. However, temperature-sensitive medical products may decay due to outside temperature changes. The time required to transport over the distance may vary a lot as well. As a result, the likelihood of the goods deteriorating is very high. There is a need for a study on cargo bay to prevent this and to protect the medical goods. In this paper, in order to protect the temperature sensitive medical goods, the inside cargo bay is equipped with the cooling fan device and the electric heating elements. These elements can be monitored and controlled according to the user’s discretion. By using the web server built inside the cloud server, the temperature can be controlled in real-time from anywhere without the limitation of distance. We built the proposed device, and installed it on the drone cargo bay. The test results show that the cargo bay can be temperature-controlled, and the setting can be maintained over a great distance. The user can watch the temperature variations during the transport and ascertain the goodness of the medical supply with the data. It is expected that such development can greatly enhance the utility of the drone operations, especially for the medical supply transport applications.
Highlights
In many countries around the world, a fair accessibility to roads varies according to the geographic characteristics and weather conditions
According to the papers that studied the effects of transporting blood by drones, the use of unmanned aircraft does not affect the quality of the products, such as coagulation and deterioration of medicines and biochemical samples [5]
We developed a technology to control the temperature inside the drone cargo bay in real-time
Summary
In many countries around the world, a fair accessibility to roads varies according to the geographic characteristics and weather conditions. There is a variety of methods for transporting medical products by walking, transporting vehicles, helicopters, and airplanes These methods have limitations in terms of distance, road accessibility, delivery costs, and geographic conditions [1]. To overcome these limitations, methods for transporting medical products using drones are being studied. A common method for lowering the temperature inside the drone cargo bay is by arranging dry ice, and ice packs Those include the Rwanda’s blood transport drone operations and a few other countries. This is because the type, place, time, and storage temperature of the stored items are all different For this reason, there is a need for a method capable of controlling the cargo bay temperature.
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