Idea: Community Health Sensors

Cheap way to keep track of how a community is doing using fevers as an indicator.

A few blimp drones, equipped with a sensitive infrared camera, circulating around the community (or office, or base, or neighborhood), mapping temperature over time. Alerts you when there’s a change. Coupled with the right video analysis software, it could even track when someone’s temperature is above a certain threshold, say 102.

Add a real sensor network to the equation (each node can be built very cheaply) and the picture becomes much, much clearer.



-Shlok
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27. January 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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