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General News of Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Source: clbadfmonline.com
2019-04-24
Okyehene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin II
Okyehene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin II described as wizards and sorcerers those who work against the progress and prosperity of the country.
Speaking at the launch of the Zipline Medical UAV Center in Omenako in the Eastern Region on Wednesday, April 24, 2019, Amoatia Ofori Panin II warned that not all Ghanaians would be satisfied with the introduction of UAVs to aircraft. medical purposes.
According to him, "we need engaged people, this is the problem of our country: a committed workforce, sincere and sincere people who will work to make this thing work."
The Okyehene said, "There are people sitting somewhere who will say," We will destroy that by stealing the blood. The blood will never arrive at the table where the doctors need it. In this country, the drug in a Tema warehouse has disappeared. So, I say that whoever does not like progress is a bad person and also a wizard / sorcerer. "
The Omenako Center is one of the Zipline bases throughout the country. Three more centers are expected to be completed later this year. Omenako will serve the East, the Volta and some areas of Ashanti regions.
The drone service will help hospitals to receive medical parcels between 15 and 17 minutes after their request via WhatsApp or SMS.
Zipline will operate at a capacity of 150 deliveries per day and 500 per day after full launch.
Deliveries of approximately 150 medical supplies, including blood, blood products and vaccines, will serve approximately 2,000 health facilities across the country at full capacity.
Zipline, the first national drone delivery service, announced Friday, March 1, 2019, the launch of the first test and diagnostic flights in Ghana from Omenako.
This revolutionary new service will use drones to deliver emergency on-demand deliveries of life-saving medicines to more than 2,000 healthcare facilities across the country.
Before launching its first test and diagnostic flights, the Ministry of Health and Zipline began to inform the public of the safety and security features of the company's drone delivery service.
"Ghana will be able to use drones for emergency medical deliveries, which will save money and save lives," said Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare, Director General of Ghana Health Services. "No one in Ghana should die because they can not access the medicines they need. Drone delivery will help prevent this. "
"We look forward to working hand in hand with the Ministry of Health as we begin the emergency delivery of medical UAVs to Ghana," said Zipline General Manager Keller Rinaudo. "An important part of this process is working with the community and key stakeholders to better understand the operation of the system and all the work done to make it the safest and most reliable service in the world."
Tyrolean safety system
Zipline's drone delivery service is intended to expand access to healthcare and save lives around the world. Health workers place their orders by SMS and receive their deliveries in 30 minutes on average. Zipline UAVs take off and land from its distribution centers, requiring no additional infrastructure in the clinics it serves. Deliveries are from the sky, the drone descending to a safe height above ground and parachute drop drugs to a designated location in the health centers that it serves.
Because the company's drones travel daily through commercial airspace in remote and populated areas to provide essential and life-saving medicines to those in need, the safety and reliability of Zipline's services is a top priority. The US Federal Aviation Administration recently announced that it may be able to ask the US commercial UAV industry to adopt, in the future, the type of security features that Zipline has already put in place. The company has taken many steps to ensure the safest distribution system of its kind in the world, including rigorous testing of flight software and aircraft equipment; flight safety procedures; redundant flight safety functions; and modular frangible design.
Rigorous testing of flight software and aircraft equipment
The company is working every day to improve the quality of its code and service to ensure it operates the safest and most efficient UAV delivery operation in the world. All software updates are first tested through automated software and hardware. Allow advanced algorithms to evaluate the performance of new code and new aircraft in the real world.
After simulation testing, all new codes are installed on drones in our state-of-the-art flight testing facility in Northern California, Codenamed Nest X, and pushed to the extreme to validate their performance. This process is repeated until the system and the aircraft are ready for deployment in the context of global air operations.
Flight operation and security
Flight operators physically inspect each aircraft and use advanced technology, such as computer vision, during pre-flight checks to ensure that each drone is fit for flight. As Zipline drones fly autonomously on predetermined routes, all our flight itineraries are pre-registered with the civil aviation authorities.
Zipline is in direct communication with these aviation authorities so that they know at all times when drones are taking off and where they are flying. Zipline's sophisticated air traffic control system uses advanced algorithms to ensure that all drones in the air know where they are, where they need to go.
Redundant security functions in flight
Tyrolines drones are designed to automatically detect problems in flight and to return safely to the base for repair. Each drone is equipped with flight computers, engines, communication systems, flight control as well as redundant navigation and power systems.
In case of emergency such as extreme weather conditions, urgent requests from air traffic control or unplanned flight operations problems, each drone is equipped with a parachute allowing it to 39, make an immediate landing by descending slowly to the ground.
Drones use parachute landings at least once a week during the testing and diagnostic phase of the launch of new distribution centers and delivery routes or when the company decides to make deliveries despite weather conditions extreme to help in case of emergency.
Modular frangible design
Zipline drones and their components are designed to break on contact, minimizing potential damage to ground objects. The main navigation, power, communication and computer functions of the drone are inserted into the drone in a single unit. This unit is housed in a carbon fiber frame protected by an outer shell of polystyrene, similar to the construction of helmets. Styrofoam is used to protect everything on the outside of the drone, as well as anything inside.
The damaged polystyrene foam is quickly replaced, allowing the drone to return to service. The same goes for the other flight modules, which include engines, wings, rear ailerons and power, navigation and communication units. If any of these aircraft are in trouble, it can be easily replaced by a new one so that the aircraft can be put back into service, saving lives as quickly as possible.
About the medical drone delivery service in Ghana
The service will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. GHS has selected 148 vitally important medical products to stock in Zipline's four distribution centers in the country. Zipline will ensure the delivery of these products on demand to one of the thousands of health facilities served.
Each of the four distribution centers will have a team of 35 Ghanaian engineers and logistics employees, equipped with at least 20 drones. Together, the four distribution centers will be able to perform at least 600 on-demand delivery flights per day. UAVs can carry 1.75 kilos of cargo, for a cruising speed of 110 km / h, and a round-trip range of 160 km in all weathers.
About the zip line
Zipline is an automated logistics company based in California. The company, which brings together veteran aerospace veterans from teams such as SpaceX, Google, Boeing and NASA, designs and operates a stand-alone system that delivers lifesaving drugs in the most challenging locations. of the world.
Zipline's mission is to provide every human on Earth with instant access to vital medical supplies. The world's most respected investors support Zipline, including Goldman Sachs, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, GV, Capital TPG, Toyota Tsusho, Temasek, Subtraction Capital, Yahoo's founder, Jerry Yang, and Stanford University.
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