The Central Viet Nam Drone Academy based at the headquarters of the University of Da Nang (UD), and the city-based Greenpower Science and Technology One Member Company Limited have collaborated to test the utility of drones ( unmanned aerial vehicles -UAVs) to serve COVID-19 prevention and control.

Drones remind those who fail to wear face masks or gather in large crowds in public via their attached speakers and cameras. Photo: QUYNH TRANG

At the trial session recently held at the campus of the UD located at 41 Le Duan, Mr. Trinh Cong Duy, the Director of the Central Viet Nam Drone Academy said that, in a bid to join the city’s fight against COVID-19, his agency and the Greenpower company immediately came up with the idea of testing drones which remind those who fail to wear face masks or gather in large crowds in public via their attached speakers and cameras. Drones will broadcast reminders without the presence by functional local forces.

Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, representative of the Greenpower company affirmed that the application of drones at this time will bring many practical benefits and solve many urgent problems in the current complicated developments of the coronavirus. Hopefully, in the shortest time, this solution will be widely applied in other Vietnamese localities.

The Central Viet Nam Drone Academy is the first of its kind in the central region to issue drone operation certificates, train human resources on drone technology applications in the digital transformation era. In particular, it is also the first drone academy in Viet Nam to apply virtual reality technology VR - VR360.

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), also known as ‘drones,’ has been thoroughly propagated among civilian affairs in Viet Nam over recent years.

Flying cameras, which are photographic devices where a camera is mounted to a drone to attain aerial shots, is one of the most popular drone applications at the moment.

Other uses of the aerial vehicle include pesticide spraying in agriculture, wind energy, solar energy, remote sensing, and emergency rescue.

For example, agronomists, agricultural engineers and even farmers are turning to UAVs to accurately plan and manage their operations. Unlike traditional seeding methods, new techniques allow the seeds and the nutrients required to foster germination to be placed onto the ground in exactly the right location. This allows for a reduction in costs while increasing the planting quantity.

Reporting by QUYNH TRANG- Translating by A.T