Mr Utkarsh also said that we were in Punjab when the state was designing its policy to tackle the spread of Coronavirus with one positive case already present in Amritsar. We volunteered to contribute to their efforts by providing a reliable dashboard which sourced data released by official sources like the Ministry of Health and Family Affairs to monitor the situation.”
There are two parts to DronaMaps COVID-19 tracking Initiative. First, a user-facing public dashboard that is built to provide reliable information pooled from official sources for citizens at large. The second is an administrative dashboard with more advanced features like location tracking, geofencing, and predictive analytics. “To flatten the curve of the number of cases with the disease, it is important to track the positive cases, suspected cases, quarantined individuals, hospitalised cases etc. To give an example, all suspected cases are constantly monitored through social media or VLR (call records). This ensures officials are aware of the places they could have visited and by detecting the mobile phones close to the patient’s phone, the people who have been in close physical proximity with the patient. In addition, predictive spatial analysis based on granular spatial and temporal data can be used to estimate which areas would need additional resources,” Utkarsh added.
Appreciating the efforts of these startups, Mr. Ajay Tomer, IAS, Addl. Secretary, DITECH, said, “Everyone has to come together to fight the Corona scare and technology is playing a major role in this.
Further, Mr Ankur Gupta, Principal Secretary, DITECH said that the Startups are an important part of the economy as most of them work on the technology that is going to have an immediate impact on human life. We are happy that our startups incubated in Haryana innovation program are playing an active role and is contributing in these times of need.”
Another NASSCOM CoE, Bangalore incubated startup BlinkIn’s remote technology helped the Huoshenshan Field Hospital in Wuhan fight Coronavirus. Their technology XCare was being used to remotely monitor and manage air handling units in Huoshenshan Hospital – an emergency field hospital constructed to specifically cater to patients. The industrial province of Wuhan was the first major city to report a massive outbreak in cases earlier this year. “The Chinese government decided to construct a temporary field medical unit to help victims, the travel ban and virulence of Coronavirus made it near impossible to install aircon units in the hospital for workers and medical staff. BlinkIn’s intelligent visual-assistance company played a key role by providing its tech support to address the crisis. It helped service engineers of Huber-Ranner to install air ventilation systems in two hospitals in Wuhan, remotely,” informed Harshwardhan Kumar, the co-founder of BlinkIn.