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Self-Driving Trucks Solutions


IDEA:

Use Convoy of 10-25 automatized trucks in between exchange hubs covering 1500 Miles in 24 hours.

BASED FOR USA:

  • No local route, only interstate without traffic signals.
  • Create exchange hubs near each major city on the interstate.
  • The Hubs are only for trucks so there are no signals or non-commercial cars taking the exit for the hub.
  • Manual truck drivers pick up the cargo trailer from the warehouse and drives to the exchange hub and drop off the trailer.
  • Automatized truck picks up the trailer and drives to the destination exchange hub.
  • Manual truck drives pick up the trailer from the exchange hub and deliver to the local destination warehouse.
  • Start with transport over 1500 miles (24 hours of driving).
  • Create a pack of 10-25 automatized trucks and send them together.
  • All the trucks in a pact are digitally connected to each other sharing data from all sensors of convoy.
  • The sensor from the truck in front and at the rear creating a single connected unit
  • Initially – A human truck driver drives first truck to lead the pact so they can access hazards on the road and provide signals to the convoy.

Features of the truck:

360o video and spatial ultra-sonic sensors

24-hour drive range

Remote control enabled – can be driven remotely like a drone mitigating emergency circumstance.

Safety:

Can use GPS data about the road traffic information

A drone on leading truck to be deployed if needed that is controlled remotely to access the road condition ahead.


Voice/Text based COVID-19 Home Triage


MULTILINGUAL, QUICK AND EFFECTIVE HOME TRIAGE

Why Triage:

  • Mitigate Exposure
  • Overwhelmed Resources
  • Lower Utilization cost

COVID-19 Quarantine Tracker


Why Triage:

  • Social Distancing Is The Only Prevention For COVID Spread.
  • Effective Enforcer Of Home Quarantine
  • Easy To Track People Who Are Under Home Quarantine.
  • Can Track Them Multiple Times a Day.
  • Requires Less Manual Resources, Reduces Exposure To Healthcare/Public Health Workers.
  • Continuous Tracker Reducing COVID Exposure And Community Spread.

HOW

Step 1

Send a Link Via Text Message At Random Times To Every Member Under Quarantine.

Step 2

Within 5 Minutes OpenThe Link To Capture ThePicture Of Their Face

The Photo Gets UploadedAnd Using Facial Recognition We Ensure TheValidity Of The Photo And Match With Their Photo On the record

Step 4

Use Geolocation To Know Their Exact Location At The Current Time And Match With The Recorded Address.

Healthcare Enforcers (Police, Public Health Workers) Would Randomly Make House Visits In Addition To Virtual Tracing. Additionally, We Can Request Their Continuous Mobile Location History.

WHY is this tool effective?:

  • Effective Enforcing Of Social Distancing.
  • Can Allow Continuous Monitoring And Enforce Better Home Quarantine Of People With Travel History or COVID Exposure.
  • Proven Results in Singapore Using Similar Technology. https://www.gov.sg/article/help-speed-up-contact-tracing-with-tracetogether
  • Reduces Exposure To Healthcare Workers.
  • Clicking Photo And Matching With Records Ensures They Are Using Their Own Mobile Phone.
  • In Addition To Facial Recognition Software, We Will Have Manual Comparison Of Pictures.
  • 5 Minutes Ensures They Do Not Have Time To Go Back To Home To Capture Their Picture.
  • If Someone Doesn’t Upload Picture Within 5 Minutes, We Will Call Them And If They Don’t Respond, Will Alert Local Authority.

Time-line:

We can enforce the project within one day of approval.

Cost of the project:

As a not-for-profit, we will only charge for technical costs around 10INR/ Person/Day and NO additional employee/personnel costs.

Advantage over google maps or other geo-location applications:

Overcomes the problem of people leaving their phones at home and going outside their quarantine zone.

What do we require?

Phone number, initial photo and quarantine addresses of all the people placed under COVID quarantine.

Data handling:

We will handle data as per government requirements. We will not store or share data to anyone and delete all the data after the situation is resolve.

Additional usage:

We can use the same method to track TB and other public health issues.


Utilities Self Bill Generate and Pay


WHY

  • Reduces COVID Exposure And Prevents People Moving Outside.
  • Prevents Company’s Men From Going To Houses Every Month To Get Usage Meter Readings.
  • Reduces People Going Out To Pay Their Utility Bills.
  • Very Efficient + Prevents COVID Community Spread.

HOW

Step 1

Log in the application and click on ‘Generate New Bill’.

Step 2

Enter new meter reading,date, and time of meter reading.

Step 3

Take a picture of the meter reading.

  • Date and time when picture is captured are automatically uploaded.
  • Human + AI compares picture meter readings with the entered meter reading.

Step 4

Bill generated and click on option ‘Pay Now’ to pay the bill online.

USAGE:

By all water, electricity, and gas provider companies. Give incentives to early adopters

SAFETY

  • To prevent cheating, we would check the photo readings with details entered, by an examiner as well as using Artificial Intelligence algorithm.
  • AI algorithm would compare the date and time, the meter was read with the date and time the picture was taken to check for the authenticity.
  • If there are evidence of cheating, examiner will go to house for inspection and if found guilty, they are penalized with INR. 25,000 or total amount of previous 12 months bills whichever is higher.