INNOVATIONS ADMIST PANDEMIC

Role Of Electronics In Pandemic

 I’ll be sharing the technical advancements and innovations that progressed during the covid-19 pandemic. Basically this will be throwing light on the role of electronics and ECE graduates in this situation. Electronics manufacturers look forward to at least a five-week product delivery delay from suppliers due to the coronavirus epidemic. Amidst these difficulties the ECE and their R&D activities have been made ready for fighting it efficiently along the with the backbone of police, doctors, health workers etc. From ventilators to drones to highly sensitive AI robots that are of great help in the hospitals, the electronics have influenced world for quite a long time now. Let us jump to see some of the automated inventions, as these are the key equipment during the pandemic.

 

GRAPHENE BIO SENSOR

A biosensor is a device which measures biological or chemical reactions by creating an electrical output response that is proportional to the concentration of a particular substance within that reaction. Graphene has emerged as the new “wonder material” for biosensors thanks to its unique physical and chemical properties. The main reason for researchers to use this detection approach is because this method is simple, rapid and presents good sensitivity. Sensors consist of two elements: a receptor and a transducer. The receptor is the organic or inorganic material that interact specifically with the target molecule. The target molecule can be organic, inorganic or even whole cells. The transducer is the part of the sensor, which converts chemical information into a measurable signal. Graphene-based nanomaterials are used as transducers of biosensors, which are involved in converting the interactions between the receptor and the target molecules into detectable measurements. Further research is undoubtedly required but we foresee that graphene may have a leading role in the world fight against COVID-19.

 

BLUETOOTH WRIST BANDS

Governments around the globe are searching for techniques to ease pandemic lockdown limitations. Improving how we react once a contaminated individual is analysed can help keep the curve flat while additionally empowering solid and recouped individuals to go out and collaborate in open once more. The primary steps governments are taking to empower computerized contact following is utilizing Bluetooth innovation to follow back contacts of affirmed cases. Once followed, contacts can be rapidly and privately told to look for testing, self-seclude, and utilize prudent steps. At first, when individuals think of Bluetooth, they consider cell phones, each accessible cell phone accompanies Bluetooth. But not every or a large portion of the total population uses its own cell phones. On account of advancements in IoT innovation, Bluetooth arm bands cost only a dollar or two and run for a long time on a coin cell battery. Subsequently, in places where individuals don't use cell phones, governments can moderately send Bluetooth arm bands. In a perfect world, Bluetooth wristbands and cell phones can supplement each other in empowering a viable computerized following arrangement. Additionally, A Bluetooth wristband doesn't have to know anything about its client's character to carry out its responsibility. So it’s safe regarding privacy concern.

UV HAMMERS

                                

The pandemic has additionally boosted interest in a whole lot of technology that would assist within  the coronavirus fight—which include the usage of ultraviolet light to sterilize scarce non-public protecting equipment (PPE) together with face masks, for reuse.

In latest papers, studies groups have now proposed techniques to take the usage of UV-C a lot farther. The organizations lay out exclusive schemes for the use of this high-electricity light to clean the virus from the air in occupied indoor spaces—while still preserving the occupants secure from the  dangerous long-time period results of exposure to UV radiation. The groups argue that the techniques they suggest, if extensively adopted, ought to sharply lessen viral transmission in public indoor spaces, and thereby assist the sector resume something toward ordinary monetary activity. The team started out with the aid of using inventorying at the indoor locations and structures most probably to unfold the virus. These, the researchers argue, consist of indoors air flow structures in an extensive variety of settings, that can unfold airborne viruses; infrastructure gadgets touched through many persons, together with elevator buttons, stair rails and public-transit handles; and common public centres with repeated, periodic excessive use, together with public toilets, storerooms and different areas.

 

To support COVID-19 fight, an engineering company in Mangaluru has developed UV light disinfection robot. The remote-controlled device is capable of disinfecting an area swiftly. It has been deployed at Tejasvini Hospital in Mangaluru. UV radiations emitted through device can clean a surface in just 4 seconds. Device will be most helpful for frontline workers engaged in COVID fight.

 

DRONES

 

Drones have become powerful tools to visualize expansive areas and communicate in complicated areas. In an effort to disinfect public spaces and prevent the further spread of COVID19, some local health authorities have tested out ways to deploy agriculture spraying drones to disinfect infected areas more efficiently. These spraying drones are filled with disinfectants instead of pesticides, which were previously used in agriculture and are operated to spray the entire public area which can cover 1,00,000 m2 in an hour with a spraying tank of 16L.

Some drones are equipped with infrared cameras to test body temperature measurements. Some authorities carried out large-scale remote temperature measurement in most apartment complexes through the drones. In addition to street surveillance, some authorities are also using drones to broadcast messages and information about lockdown measures, especially an in the rural area that lacks open communication channels for health information. In Wuhan, the epicentre of the pandemic, a drone is used to deliver medical supplies in the hospital. This technology not only speeds up delivery of essential medical supplies and samples but also reduces the risk of exposure to medical staff which made a major difference in efforts to combat the disease. Apart from medical supplies, drones are also being used as delivering groceries in some parts of China, the US, and Australia.

 

WAVE OF INNOVATIONS IN INDIA DURING COVID-19:

• ·       In early April, the Indian government launched a Covid-19 tracking app called Aarogya Setu which uses GPS and Bluetooth to inform people when they are at risk of exposure to Covid-19.
•       Start-ups including KlinicApp and Practo, are providing Covid-19 tests at home and online consultation with doctors through their platform.
•  In response to the shortage of ventilators for critical care, start-ups such as Nocca Robotics, incubated at Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur; Aerobiosys Innovations, incubated at IIT-Hyderabad; and AgVa Healthcare are developing low-cost, easy-to-use, and portable ventilators that can be deployed even in rural areas of India.
• Start-ups such as Marut Dronetech have partnered with state governments to test the use of drones to monitor adherence to social distancing rules.
•   The national government launched the Covid-19 solution challenge on March 16 that invites innovators to offer ideas and solutions for tackling the pandemic.
•   Similar crowdsourced platforms from start-up incubators such as BreakCorona received 1,300 ideas and 180 product solutions within two days of launch. In another effort, volunteers have set up an online crowdsourced portal called Coronasafe-Network, a real-time open-source public platform containing details on Covid-19 precautions, tools and responses which serves as a useful starter-kit for innovators.

 

Technologies like Artificial Intelligence, GIS and Mapping, Location Technology, and autonomous machines apart from Electronic medical equipment are playing a growing role in responding to COVID-19.

 

 

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