This gold-medallist swimmer's enterprise flies drones to kill Coronavirus
Way back in 2014, Doordarshan was telecasting a science reality
show in which young school-going innovators were demonstrating their ideas. The
winners were announced in quite a unique manner -- a drone showered chocolates
on them. These winners are now using that very technology to shower disinfectants
on schools, colleges and government offices in order to get rid of the killer Coronavirus and
make these premises what they ‘Corona Killer 100 (CK100)’.
Chennai-based
Garuda Aerospace, promoted by Asian gold medalist swimmer and young
entrepreneur Agnishwar Jayaprakash, was launched in 2015. But right from the
beginning, the firm had one objective - to explore larger use cases of these
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) instead of simply deploying them to video-graph
weddings and other events.
Over the years, the company has been involved in manufacturing drones and
offering their services in agriculture, pesticide spraying, mapping, crowd
monitoring, wildlife monitoring, aerial inspection, delivery, wildlife
poaching, among a host of other services. It has acquired expertise in the
agriculture sector, in pesticide spraying, powerline stringing for high tension
electricity lines for Tamil Nadu Electricity Board, mapping for infrastructure
firms, and aerial inspection of forest area for Tamil Nadu Forest Department,
where a loudspeaker loaded with the drone imitates animal sounds to distract
the wildlife from approaching human habitats.
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