E-Medic – Autonomous Drone for Healthcare System

Abstract

This paper presents the implementation of a platform for the delivery of medicine using an autonomous drone. The platform consists of a Healthcare platform that connects doctors and patients and an autonomous drone that handles the delivery of medicine to the patients. This platform mainly contains several functionalities for the E-prescribing and delivery management of a drone. For patient management, the E-medic system uses a mobile application with facial recognition-based Authentication. Also, this platform is developed with separate web-applications to handle prescriptions, orders, and delivery management. Since this system uses an autonomous drone for deliveries, this platform also has functionalities to operate the delivery drone using a web application. the system uses REST APIs to operate the drone regardless of the distance to the ground station. The delivery drone can discover the shortest path to the destination and fly to that destination autonomously with the help of the computer vision-based obstacle avoidance system.