Medical Supply Delivery Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

南阿尔伯塔理工学院（SAIT）通过其应用研究和创新服务部（阿里斯）及其无人系统创新和研究中心（CIRUS）支持创新和新技术开发。这种跨学科的环境解决了挑战，创造了效率，开发和测试了新的创新产品和应用程序，以满足企业的业务需求和所有加拿大人的社会需求。使用无人驾驶航空器的医疗交付项目将为基于遥控飞机系统（RPAS）的医疗交付业务制定路线图，重点关注并纳入Nakoda（Stoney），伊登谷和大角第一民族社区。SAIT将使用其Swiss Drone SDO50，这是一种最先进的遥控直升机，有效载荷能力为45公斤，航程超过300公里，垂直起降（VTOL）固定翼RPA完成该项目。在这个项目结束时，它将过渡到一个全面运作的基于RPAS的医疗服务计划，适用于加拿大阿尔伯塔的任何第一民族社区，或国际环境，以支持偏远社区的最佳医疗保健。与Stoney Nakoda Nation和21世纪世纪病房（W21 C）建立伙伴关系，卡尔加里大学奥布莱恩公共卫生研究所的一项医疗保健系统研究和创新计划，SAIT的研究人员和该团队将测试和开发利用遥控飞机系统（RPAS）运送医疗用品和非生命体的方法，往返原住民社区和省实验室（Provlab）的传染性病毒载量。SAIT完全有能力支持社会需求并明确帮助弱势群体。协助维持充足的医疗供应和分配链至关重要，在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间更加明显，并且非常适用于偏远的第一民族社区。

The Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) supports innovation and new technology development through its Applied Research and Innovation Services department (ARIS) and its Centre for Innovation and Research in Unmanned Systems (CIRUS). This cross-disciplinary environment addresses challenges, creates efficiencies, and develops and tests new, innovative products and applications to satisfy corporate business needs and the societal needs of all Canadians.The Medical Delivery Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles project will develop a roadmap for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS)-based medical delivery operations with a focus on and incorporation of the Nakoda (Stoney), Eden Valley and Big Horn First Nation communities. SAIT will use its Swiss Drone SDO50, a remotely piloted state of the art helicopter with 45 kg payload capacity, a range of more than 300 kilometers and a Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) fixed wing RPA to complete the project. At the conclusion of this project, it will transition into a fully operational RPAS-based medical delivery program for any First Nation community in Alberta, in Canada, or international setting to support optimal healthcare for those in remote communities.Establishing a partnership with Stoney Nakoda Nation and the Ward of the 21st Century (W21C), a healthcare systems research and innovation initiative based at the University of Calgary's O'Brien Institute for Public Health, researchers at SAIT and the team will test and develop methodology for the utilization of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) to deliver medical supplies and live non-infectious viral loads to and from First Nation Communities and to the Provincial Laboratory (Provlab). SAIT is well-positioned to support societal needs and explicitly assist vulnerable populations. Assistance in maintaining an adequate chain of medical supplies and distribution is paramount, made even more evident during the COVID-19 pandemic, and is extremely applicable to remote First Nation communities.