Dunzo on Tuesday introduced that it’s all set to pilot drone supply of medicines below the ‘Medicine from the Sky’ challenge launched by the Telangana authorities in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. The Google-backed supply startup is main a Med-Air consortium together with business specialists to conduct experimental Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone supply flights for the challenge that’s aimed to allow emergency medical deliveries that would embrace COVID-19 vaccines and different necessities. Dunzo is amongst the entities that had been not too long ago allowed by the central authorities to conduct BVLOS experimental flights utilizing drones.
The drone supply system will give attention to an end-to-end ecosystem for drone-based logistic transportation and can utilise the present logistics community of the Telangana state to allow medical provides in its completely different districts, Dunzo mentioned in an announcement. The deliveries will likely be based mostly on the central authorities’s latest regulation insurance policies for low-altitude airspace for drones and unmanned aerial automobiles.
Although the precise timeline of the pilot is but to be revealed, Dunzo informed Gadgets 360 that it was working to roll its drone deliveries out as quickly because it obtained the go-ahead from native authorities.
“We believe our participation in the ‘Medicine from the Sky’ project will facilitate a more connected state and country, allowing people almost instantaneous access to vaccines and medicines from the most populous to most remote areas in India in the near future,” Kabeer Biswas, CEO and Founder, Dunzo Digital mentioned.
The Telangana authorities has partnered with the World Economic Forum, NITI Aayog, and HealthNet Global for the ‘Medicine from the Sky’ challenge. This is aimed to make sure supply of necessities together with medicines and vaccines proceed to be supported amid infrastructural challenges and lockdowns, Dunzo mentioned.
“Telangana is one of the most proactive states looking to adopt emerging technologies, and the ‘Medicine from the Sky’ project using drones is in line with the same principles,” Jayesh Ranjan, IAS, Principal Secretary, ITE&C Department, Government of Telangana mentioned. “This project is one of the first such programmes in the country where multiple drones would fly BVLOS to establish their value proposition for the healthcare supply chain.”
Last month, the Ministry of Civil Aviation released an inventory of as many as 20 entities which have been allowed to conduct BVLOS experimental drone flights. That checklist included Dunzo alongside corporations comparable to SpiceJet and Swiggy. That order additionally talked about the ClearSky consortium that has Vodafone Idea and Zomato amongst its 13 individuals.
Dunzo claimed that it has witnessed a 350 p.c development in drugs orders since January, owing to the expansion of COVID-19 unfold within the nation. The startup facilitated the supply of over 20,000 orders to hospitals between March and May. Alongside order deliveries to hospitals, Dunzo mentioned that it hosted the supply of home-cooked meals, oximeters, and different medical assist that resulted in a development of 204 p.c in its pick-up and drop orders.
Currently accessible in eight cities — Bengaluru, Pune, Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, and Jaipur — Dunzo is planning to tackle the likes of Swiggy Genie and Uber Connect by increasing its operations to twenty cities by 2022.
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