Zipline delivers medical equipment with drones

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While we discovered the day before yesterday a patent filed by Google for emergency drones, it could well be that a competitor is already ready to give shade to the firm of Mountain View: the start-up Zipline will help the people of Rwanda with medical supplies by UAV.

Headquartered in San Francisco, the company has already begun delivery operations in this country weakened by lack of access to healthcare and road infrastructure. Partner of the local government, the project of Zipline is to send a autonomous electric drone (whose destination is preprogrammed with a GPS integrated) deliver medical equipment in less than 30 minutes by performing links between the 20 hospitals of the country, unfortunately too scattered and difficult to access. Doctors will also have the opportunity to order everything they need via SMS.

The 15 Zip of California society weigh less than 10 kg and are able to carry 1.5 kg payload: vaccines, pharmaceuticals and blood can be delivered up to 60 km to the round with a speed that can reach 100 km / h. To transmit their load, the devices parachuteront simply the parcels above the receiving establishments. Zipline hopes to be able to perform between 50 and 150 routes per day thanks to his fleet.

The experiment should start in July 2016, since the tests conducted in Silicon Valley have been totally conclusive. Backed by investors such as Paul Allen, Google Ventures and Sequoia Partners and engineers from SpaceX, Boeing or NASA, there is no doubt that the initiative will succeed!

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